Surah Ibrahim English Translation & Transliteration

¹Alif Lam Ra! This Quran is the Book We have sent down to you so that, by their Lord's leave, you may bring people out of darkness into light, and lead them to the path of Allah, who is all-mighty and worthy of praise.

²That Allah to whom all that is in the heavens and on the earth belongs.(1) Woe to the disbelievers who do not see this truth, for the severe punishment they will meet!(2)

³They are the ones who prefer the life of this world to the Hereafter,(1) turn people away from Allah's true religion, and try to make His path look crooked.(2) They are in deep misguidance.(3)

⁴We sent every messenger in the language of his own people, so that he could convey the revelation clearly and plainly.(1) Allah then leads to misguidance whoever chooses misguidance, and to the right path whoever chooses the right path.(2) For He is perfect in all He does, and His every judgment is right.(3)

⁵We had sent Moses with Our signs, saying: "Bring your people out of darkness into light,(1) and remind them of Allah's days of blessing and of trial!"(2) Surely in this there are lessons for everyone who is patient to the end and who gives the blessings their due and is grateful.(3)

⁶Once Moses had said to his people: "Remember the blessings Allah bestowed on you: how He delivered you from the oppression of Pharaoh and his men, who were killing your sons and letting your women live, so as to inflict the worst of torture on you. In all this there was a great trial for you from your Lord."

⁷And recall when your Lord proclaimed: "If you are grateful and give the blessings their due, I will most certainly increase those blessings; but if you are ungrateful, know well that My punishment is severe indeed!"

⁸And Moses went on to say: "Even if you and everyone on the earth were all to be ungrateful, know well that Allah needs no one(1) and is worthy of all praise."(2)

⁹Has the news not reached you of those who came and went before you, the people of Noah, Ad, and Thamud, and of the many more communities whose number only Allah knows?(1) Their messengers had come to them with clear proofs of the truth, but they tried to silence them by putting their hands over their mouths, and said: "We do not believe in what you have been sent with, and we have serious doubts about what you are calling us to!"(2)

¹⁰Their messengers said: "Are you in doubt about Allah, who created the heavens and the earth?(1) Yet He is calling you so as to forgive your sins and thus defer your destruction until an appointed term."(2) They said: "You are merely human beings like us;(3) you want to turn us away from what our fathers have always served.(4) So bring us a clear proof/miracle!"(5)

¹¹Their messengers said to them: "Yes, we are only human beings like you,(1) but Allah honors whichever of His servants is worthy by granting him messengership.(2) Even so, we cannot bring you a proof/miracle except by Allah's leave.(3) So let the believers rely and trust in Allah alone.(4)"

¹²"And why should we not put our trust in Allah and rely on Him, when He has guided us in finding our ways? We will certainly bear with patience the harm and hardship you inflict on us. So let all who would trust and rely put their trust in Allah alone and hold fast to Him."

¹³Those disbelievers who covered up the truths said to their messengers: "Either we will drive you out of this land, or you will return to our belief system."(1) And their Lord revealed to them: "We will most certainly destroy the wrongdoers who oppress people for their faith."(2)

¹⁴"And after them We will settle you in those lands. This promise is for those who fear My majesty and fear My threat."

¹⁵The messengers asked for victory and triumph, and so all the stubborn tyrants fell and perished.

¹⁶And beyond that lies Hell, where they will be given foul water of blood and pus to drink!

¹⁷He will gulp to swallow it but will never be able to get it down. Death will close in on him from every side, yet he will never be able to die; and beyond that a far heavier punishment will await him!

¹⁸The deeds of those who refuse to acknowledge their Lord's verses are like ashes that the wind scatters violently on a stormy day; they gain nothing from what they have earned. That is the deepest misguidance and the greatest loss.

¹⁹Do you not see that Allah created the heavens and the earth for a right/true purpose?(1) If He wills, He will do away with you and bring in your place an entirely new people.(2)

²⁰That is not at all difficult for Allah.

²¹One day they will all come before Allah, and those who were weak in judgment and blindly followed others will say to the arrogant ones they followed: "In the world we always followed you. Can you now save us from Allah's punishment, even a little?" They will say: "Had Allah guided us, we would have guided you too. Had Allah shown us a way out of here, we would have shown it to you too. But now it makes no difference whether we wail or endure. For we have nowhere to flee to and take refuge."

²²And when the judgment has become final and all is over, Satan will say: "All that Allah promised you was true, whereas I made you certain promises but did not keep them. In fact, I had no power of compulsion over you at all. I merely invited you, and you responded to my call. So do not blame me; blame yourselves. Now I cannot save you, nor can you save me. Indeed, I never accepted your associating me as a partner with Allah before." It is a fact that a painful punishment awaits the wrongdoers who follow Satan's path.

²³But those who believe and do right and good deeds as faith requires will be placed in gardens beneath which rivers flow. Their Lord has granted them leave to abide there permanently.(1) Their greeting to one another there will be "Peace."(2)

²⁴Do you not see what kind of comparison Allah has made for a good word? That good word is like a fruitful tree whose root is firm in the ground and whose branches reach toward the sky.

²⁵By its Lord's leave it gives fruit at all times. Allah gives people such examples so that they may take heed.

²⁶And the example of an ugly word is like a dry tree uprooted from the ground, unable to stand.

²⁷Thus Allah keeps those who believe standing firm through this firm and steadfast word, both in the life of this world and in the Hereafter. Those who cling to an evil word He leaves alone with their misguidance. For Allah brings about whatever He wills.

²⁸Do you not see those who repay all the blessings Allah has given with ingratitude, and thus drag both themselves and their society to the abode of destruction?

²⁹That abode of destruction is Hell. They will be cast into it. What an evil place to settle!

³⁰They set up others as equals to Allah in order to lead people astray from His path.(1) Say: "Go on, enjoy this world a little longer. In any case, your destination is the Fire."(1)

³¹Tell My servants who believe to perform the prayer properly and to spend, in secret and openly, from the wealth We have given them, before that day comes on which no bargaining and no ties of friendship will be of any use.

³²It is Allah who created the heavens and the earth, and who with the rain He sends down from the sky has brought forth many kinds of produce as provision for you. Through the laws of nature He has laid down, He has placed at your service the ships that glide through the seas, and He has placed the rivers at your service as well.

³³And just as He has placed at your disposal the sun and the moon, which travel regularly in their orbits, so by the same law He has placed the night and the day at your service.

³⁴Thus He has given you everything you need to live. Were you to try to count Allah's blessings, you would not be able to count them. Truly, the human being is most unjust and most ungrateful.

³⁵Recall when Abraham said: "My Lord! Make this city secure, and keep me and my sons, all of us, away from worshipping idols!"

³⁶"My Lord! They have caused many people to go astray. So whoever follows me is on the same path as I am. And whoever disobeys me, even so, You forgive and show mercy."

³⁷"Our Lord! I have settled some of my offspring near Your sacred House, in a barren valley unfit for sowing and reaping. Our Lord! I did so in order that they might perform the prayer properly. So incline people's hearts toward them, and provide them with various kinds of produce, so that they may give thanks to You."

³⁸"Our Lord! Surely You know what we conceal and what we disclose. For nothing on earth or in heaven is hidden from Allah."

³⁹"All praise and glory belong to You, O Allah, my God, who granted me Ishmael and Isaac in my old age. My Lord truly hears all supplications."

⁴⁰"O my Lord! Make me and those of my descendants among those who perform the prayer, and accept my supplication."

⁴¹"Our Lord! On the day when accounts are settled, forgive me, my mother and father, and all the believers!"

⁴²Never think that Allah is unaware of what the wrongdoers who spread corruption in the land are doing! He is only deferring them to a day on which eyes will bulge from their sockets in terror.

⁴³On that day they will run in panic toward the place to which they are summoned, their heads raised, their eyes frozen in an unblinking stare, their wits gone.

⁴⁴Warn people about the day when such a punishment will come upon them. On that day the wrongdoers who have brought ruin upon themselves will say: "Our Lord! Grant us a little more respite, so that we may answer Your call and thus follow the messengers." They will be told: "Were you not the ones who used to swear before, 'There is no resurrection, there is no such thing as giving account!'?"

⁴⁵Moreover, you had settled in the dwellings of those who dragged themselves to destruction, and it had been made clear to you how We destroyed them. We had also given you many examples concerning this.

⁴⁶Yes, they had laid every kind of trap; but even if their traps had been enough to move mountains from their places, Allah brought their traps to nothing.

⁴⁷Never think that Allah will go back on the promise He gave His messengers!(1) Do not forget that Allah is mighty, and makes everyone taste the penalty for what they have done.(2)

⁴⁸A day will come when the earth will be turned into another earth, and the heavens into other heavens, and all will be gathered before Allah, the One Judge/the One who decides rightly, the sovereign Power.

⁴⁹And on that day you will see the guilty bound in chains.

⁵⁰Their garments will be of tar, and the fire will envelop their faces.

⁵¹This is so that Allah may repay everyone for what he has earned.(1) For Allah is swift in reckoning.(2)

⁵²This Quran, so that people may be warned by it,(1) know that Allah is one God,(2) and so that those of pure reason may take heed,(3) is a notification and a proclamation to all humanity!(4)