Surah Fatir English Translation & Transliteration

¹All praise belongs to Allah, who created the heavens in a matchless way and who sends angels with wings in twos, threes, and fours as messengers. There is no limit to Him in creating whatever He wills. For Allah has power over all things.

²No power can close the door of mercy that Allah opens for people, and no power can open the door He closes. For He alone is the absolutely supreme and exalted One, and every judgment of His is right.

³O people! Just think of the blessings Allah has given you. Is there any creator other than Allah who could provide for you from the sky and the earth? There is no god but Him. How, then, are you so deceived?

⁴If they call you a liar, know that the messengers before you were also called liars. All matters, however they turn, come back to Allah in the end.

⁵O people, know that Allah's promise will certainly be fulfilled. Beware! Do not let this fleeting worldly life deceive you, and do not let any deceiver deceive you about Allah.

⁶Do not forget that Satan is your enemy. So you too must regard him as an enemy. For he drags into Hell only those who follow him.

⁷A severe punishment awaits the disbelievers who cover up the truths. But for those who believe and do good and beautiful deeds there is forgiveness and a great reward.

⁸What is to be said of the one whose evil deeds appear adorned to him, so that he sees the evil he does as merit and virtue? Surely Allah confirms the misguidance of the one who chooses misguidance, and guides to the right path the one who chooses the right path. So do not destroy yourself with grief over them! For Allah knows what they are doing.

⁹It is Allah who sends the winds as messengers and with them stirs up the clouds. Then We drive those clouds to parched lands and make rain fall, and so We bring dead lands to life. This is how the resurrection, too, will be.

¹⁰Whoever seeks honor and esteem, let him know well that Allah is the source of all honor and esteem. Only good words/the belief in Allah's oneness (tawhid) rise up to Him. And good and beautiful deeds are exalted by that belief in His oneness. As for those who craftily plot schemes to destroy this belief in His oneness, a most severe punishment awaits them, and all the schemes they lay will come to nothing.

¹¹Allah created you first from soil, then from a drop of water/sperm. Then He made you pairs, female and male. No female conceives or gives birth outside His knowledge/the law He has laid down. Whether a person's life is long or short depends solely on the laws He has laid down. For all this is very easy for Allah.

¹²The two great bodies of water are not alike: the water of one is fresh and pleasant to drink, while that of the other is salty and bitter. Yet from each of them you eat fresh meat and bring out ornaments to wear as jewelry. And you see the ships cleaving through the waters as they sail the seas, so that you may seek your share of Allah's bounty and give the blessings their due and be grateful.

¹³It is He who shortens the night and adds it to the day, and shortens the day and adds it to the night. And it is He who has placed at your service the sun and the moon, each flowing on in its own orbit until an appointed time. This is Allah, your Lord, to whom all sovereignty belongs. But those you place between yourselves and Allah and implore in prayer do not own even the thin skin of a seed.

¹⁴Even if you implore them, they do not hear your prayer, and even if they heard it, they could not answer you. And on the Day of Resurrection they will reject your associating them with Allah as partners (shirk). No one can inform you of all this like Allah, who is aware of everything.

¹⁵O people, all of you are dependent on Allah for all your needs. But Allah is the One who needs nothing and is worthy of all praise.

¹⁶If He wills, He can destroy you and bring a new people in your place.

¹⁷And that is not at all difficult for Allah.

¹⁸No sinner can bear the sin of another. Even if one who is heavily burdened calls on another to carry part of his load, none of it will be placed on the other, even if he is his closest kin. You can warn only those who feel a heartfelt, deep reverence for their Lord and perform the prayer as it should be performed! Whoever purifies himself does so only for his own good, for the return is to Allah.

¹⁹The one who sees the truth and the one who does not are not alike...

²⁰Nor are darkness and light.

²¹Nor are coolness and heat.

²²Nor are the living and the dead. Allah makes whoever wishes to hear this message hear it. But you cannot make those in the graves hear.

²³For you are only a warner.

²⁴For We have sent you with this Quran as a bearer of good news and a warner. Indeed, there is no ummah/community to whom a warner has not come.

²⁵If they accuse you of lying, know that those before them also called Our messengers liars, even though those messengers came to them with clear evidence, scriptures full of wisdom, and illuminating books.

²⁶In the end I punished the disbelievers who covered up the truths in such a way that they saw what it means not to believe in Me.

²⁷Just look at the rain Allah sends down from the sky! With it We have grown crops of every color and flavor. And in the mountains We have formed paths of various hues, some white, some red, and some jet black.

²⁸Likewise, We have created human beings, living creatures, and animals of various colors. But only those of His servants who have knowledge of these matters feel deep reverence for Allah. For Allah is possessed of supreme power and is matchless in forgiveness.

²⁹There is no doubt that those who read and convey Allah's Book/the Quran, perform the prayer, and spend, secretly and openly, from what We have provided for them may hope for a gain that will never run out.

³⁰For Allah will pay them the reward for what they did in full, and will even give them more out of His bounty. For He is matchless in forgiveness and rewards gratitude without limit.

³¹This Book/the Quran that We have revealed to you is the truth itself, confirming the revelations that came before it. Allah is certainly aware of every state of His servants; He sees them.

³²Then We left this divine word as an inheritance to those of Our servants whom We chose. Some of them, failing to do justice to this inheritance, wronged themselves and became wrongdoers. Some follow a middle course. And some, by Allah's leave, are foremost in doing justice to this trust. This is the greatest virtue.

³³Their reward is the Gardens of Adn (Eden), which they will enter. There they will be adorned with bracelets of gold and ornaments of pearl, and their garments there will be of silk.

³⁴And there they will pray: "Praise be to Allah, who has taken all sorrow and grief away from us! Our Lord is truly matchless in forgiveness and rewards gratitude without limit!"

³⁵For He, in His grace and mercy, has settled us in this lasting home. Here we will know neither fatigue nor boredom any more.

³⁶As for the disbelievers who cover up the truths, for them there is the fire of Hell. No decree is passed for them to die, so that they might die and be delivered, nor is their punishment lightened. This is how We punish every ungrateful disbeliever.

³⁷There they will cry out with all their might: —Our Lord, take us out of here, and we will do good and beautiful deeds, unlike the evil we did before. Allah will say: —Did We not give you a life long enough for anyone who wished to reflect and take admonition? Moreover, a warner had come to you. So now taste the punishment of Hell! From now on, the wrongdoers who paid no heed to the warnings will have no helper at all.

³⁸There is no doubt that Allah knows all the hidden things of the heavens and the earth. So He also knows the most intimate secrets within people's hearts.

³⁹It is He who has made you vicegerents/rulers on the earth; but whoever is ungrateful for these blessings is ungrateful only to his own detriment. For the disbelievers' disbelief only increases their degradation in their Lord's sight, and the disbelievers' disbelief only increases their loss.

⁴⁰Say: —Have you ever thought about those you place between yourselves and Allah and implore in prayer? Show me what they have created on the earth! Or do they have a share in the governance of the heavens? Or have We given them a book, so that they ascribe partners to Allah on the basis of evidence in it? No, in truth, those who ascribe partners promise one another nothing but deception.

⁴¹There is no doubt that it is Allah who holds the heavens and the earth in balance through the system He has established, and keeps them from ceasing to exist. Were the established order of the heavens and the earth to break down, there is none other than Allah who could set it in order again. There is no doubt that He is most forbearing and most forgiving toward His servants.

⁴²Yet they used to swear by Allah with their most solemn oaths that, if a warner came to them, they would follow His guidance more closely than any other people. Now a warner has come to them, but this Quran has only increased their aversion.

⁴³The coming of the warner led them to act arrogantly in the land and to lay cunning traps against him. Yet only those who plan such cunning traps fall into them. Are they now waiting for anything other than the social law that was applied to those before them? Do not forget: you will find no change in Allah's sunnah/law, and you will find no deviation in Allah's sunnah/law.

⁴⁴Do they not travel through the land, reflect on what became of the peoples before them, and take a lesson? Yet those were far stronger than they are. Do not forget that there is no power in the heavens or on the earth that could leave Allah helpless. For He knows all things and has power over all things.

⁴⁵If Allah were to punish people at once for what they have done, He would not leave a single living creature on the earth. But He grants them respite until an appointed time. When at last their time is up, He will do what is required. For Allah sees all that His servants do.