Surah As-Sajdah English Translation & Transliteration

¹Alif Lam Mim.

²The sending down of this Book/the Quran, in which there is no doubt, is from the Lord of the worlds.

³And yet they still say, "He has made up this Quran," do they? No, the truth is that this Quran is the truth, sent by your Lord Himself so that you may warn a people who did not wake up even though warners came to them before you. Perhaps they will understand this divine warning and come to the right path.

⁴It is Allah who created the heavens, the earth, and everything between them in six stages, and who then, through the laws He laid down, holds sovereignty over them. Besides Him you have neither any protector nor any intercessor. Will you not use your reason at all?

⁵It is He who determines and regulates everything in the universe, from the heaven to the earth. Then everything that happens reaches Him in a day/in an instant, which is equal to a thousand years of your reckoning.

⁶That is Allah, who knows all that is seen and unseen. He possesses supreme power, and at the same time matchless mercy.

⁷For He has created everything He created in the finest way. And He began the creation of the human being from clay.

⁸Then He made him reproduce from a humble fluid.

⁹Then He endowed him with the faculties needed to fulfill the purpose of his creation, and breathed into him of His own spirit (His revelation); and within this framework He equipped you with the faculties of hearing, seeing, and thinking. How little you give these blessings their due and are grateful!

¹⁰And they even go so far as to say: "After we have died and blended into the earth, are we really to be raised again?" In fact, they take no account of meeting their Lord!

¹¹Say: —The angel of death assigned to you will take your souls when the time comes, and in the end you will be returned to your Lord for the reckoning!

¹²If only you could see those guilty ones before their Lord, with heads hung low, as they say: "Our Lord, we have seen what we were to see and heard what we were to hear; we have believed and are convinced. Please send us back, so that we may do good and beautiful deeds!"

¹³Had We willed, We would certainly have guided everyone to the right path; We did not, but left the choice to human beings, so that each would determine for himself where he is headed, and so that the promise I made, "I swear that I will fill Hell with the jinn and humans who do not believe," might come true.

¹⁴Go on, then, suffer the penalty for having forgotten this day of meeting long ago. We too have forgotten you today; so taste the lasting punishment as a recompense for what you did.

¹⁵Only those believe in Our verses who, when reminded of them, fall down in prostration in submission, without arrogance, and proclaim the glory of their Lord with praise.

¹⁶They rise from their beds and implore their Lord in fear and hope, and they spend in Allah's way from what We have provided them.

¹⁷No one can know what dazzling blessings await them in the Hereafter as the reward for the good deeds they used to do.

¹⁸Can a believer and a transgressor who has strayed from the path ever be the same? They can never be equal.

¹⁹As for the believers who believe and do good and beautiful deeds, the mansions of Paradise await them, and there they will be hosted as a reward for what they did.

²⁰As for the transgressors who have strayed from the path, the place where they will end up and settle is the Fire. Whenever they want to get out of it, they will be driven back into it and told: "Go on, taste the punishment of this Fire which you kept denying!"

²¹Yet, so that perhaps they may turn back, We make them taste in this world some lesser punishment before the great punishment of the Hereafter.

²²Who could be a greater wrongdoer/more guilty than one who turns away from his Lord's verses after they have been conveyed to him? We will certainly punish these guilty ones for what they did.

²³Indeed, We had also given Moses the Book. So never be in doubt about this. And We had made that Book a guide to the right path for the Children of Israel.

²⁴And at the times when they stood firm and were patient in their cause and believed in Our verses wholeheartedly, We raised up from among them leaders who called people to the right path through Our messages.

²⁵Have no doubt that on the Day of Resurrection your Lord will judge between them concerning the matters on which they disagreed.

²⁶Does it not serve as guidance for them that We destroyed so many civilizations that came and went before them, in whose lands they now walk about? Surely in this there are many lessons to be learned. Will they still not listen to these truths?

²⁷And do they not see that, with the rain We send down, We give life to bone-dry soil and with it grow the crops and plants on which both they and their animals feed? Do they still not look on these things and take a lesson?

²⁸And they even go so far as to say: "If you are truthful in your claim, tell us, when will this day of victory (the day on which the right and the wrong will be separated) come about?"

²⁹Say: —The day of victory is a day on which their faith will be of no benefit at all to the disbelievers who cover up the truth, and on which no one will look at them, nor will their punishment be deferred.

³⁰So leave them to themselves. Since they are waiting for your end, you too wait and see what will happen!