Translating Surahs

Al-Fatihah (The opener or the key)

1 - In the name of Allah, the all merciful (or compassionate), the very merciful (or especially merciful)

2 - All praise belongs to Allah, the lord of all worlds

3 - the all-merciful (or compassionate), the very merciful (or especially merciful)

4 - the master of the Day of Judgment

5 - You alone we worship and ask for help

6 - guide us on the straight path

7 - the path for those who you have blessed not who you are displeased with or have gone astray

Al-Bayyinah (The Clear Proof)

Al-Zalzalah (The Earthquake)

1- When the earth is shaken with its (last) quaking

2- and when the earth throws out (all) its burdens

3- and man cries “What’s wrong with it”?

4- On that day, it will tell all

5- because your lord has inspired it (to do so)

6- on that day people will be separated to be shown (the consequences of) their deeds

7- So whoever does an atom’s weight of good will see it

8- and whoever does an atom’s weight of evil will see it

Al-Adiyat (The Courser)

1- By the galloping, panting horses

2- striking sparks of fires with their hooves

3- launching raids at dawn

4- stirring up clouds of dust

5- and penetrating into the middle of the enemy

6- mankind is ungrateful to their lord

7- and he is a witness to this

8- and he is excessively in love with his wealth

9- does he not know that when the contents of the graves will be spilled out

10- and the secrets of the heart will be uncovered

11- their lord is all aware of them on that day

AL-Qari’ah (The Calamity)

1- The Striking Calamity.

2 - What is the striking calamity?

3 - And what will make you know what the striking calamity is?

4 - It is the Day then people will be scattered like moths,

5 - and the mountains will be like wool

6 - for those whose scales are heavy (with good deeds)

7 - will have a pleasant life

8 - but for ones whose scales are light

9 - their home will be an abyss

10 - and what can make you know what that is ?

11 - it is a blazing fire

At-Takathur (The Rivalry in World Increase)

1- competition for more (worldly gains) diverts you (from Allah)

2- until you go into your grave.

3- No! You will come to know

4- Then, no! You will come to know.

5- No! If only you knew with certainty

6- You will surely see the hellfire

7- then you will surely see it with the eye of certainty

8- On that day you will be asked about your (worldly) pleasures

Al- Asr (The Declining Day)

1 - by the declining day (time)

2- mankind is in (grave / deep) loss

3- except those who beleive, do good deeds, urge each other to the truth, and urge each other to perseverance / steadfastness

Al- Humazah (The Slanderer)

1 - woe to every backbiter

2 - who amasses wealth and (continuously) counts it

3 - thinking his wealth will make them immortal

4 - No, he will be thrown into the Crusher!

5 - And what will tell you what the crusher is?

6 - it is Allah’s Fire

7 - that rages over the hearts

8 - it will be closed upon them

9 - in towering columns

AL-FIl (The Elephant)

1 - Have you not seen (prophet) how your lord dealt with the army of the elephant?

2 - Did he not completely stop their plan?

3 - He sent against them flocks of birds

4 - that pelted them with stones baked of clay

5 - leaving them liked chewed up straw

Quraysh

1 - Allah did this to make Quraysh feel secure

2 - secure in their winter and summer journeys

3 - let them worship the lord of this house

4 - who has fed them against hunger and made them secure against fear

AL-Ma’un (The Small Kindnesses)

1 - Have you seen the one who denies the judgement?

2 - that is the one who pushes aside the orphan

3 - and does not encourage others to feed the poor

4 - so woe to those who pray

5 - but who are heedless (aren’t mindful or careful) of their prayer,

6 - those who only show off,

7 - and refuse to give small kindness

Al-Kawthar (The Abundance)

1 - We have granted you (prophet) abundance (of goodness)

2 - so pray to your lord and offer him sacrifice

3 - the one who hates you is cut off (from all goodness)

Al-Kafirun (The Disbelievers)

1 - say (prophet) “O disbelievers

2 - I do not worship what you worship

3 - you do not worship what I worship

4 - I will never worship what you worship

5 - you will never worship what I worship

6 - you have your religion, I have my religion

An-Nasr (The Divine Support)

1 - when Allah’s help has come and victory over Mecca is acheived

2 - and you see people embracing the religion of Allah in crowds

3 - then praise your lord and ask for forgiveness, He is always accepting repentance

Al-Masad (The Palm Fiber)

1 - May the hands of Abu Lahab be ruined, and him too!

2 - His wealth and gains will not help him

3 - he will burn in a flaming fire

4 - and so will his wife the carrier of firewood (she used to throw thorns at the prophet and slander him, meant to symbolize the firewood she’ll carry in hell)

5 - around her neck a rope of palm-fiber

Al-Ikhlas (sincerity or purity)

1 - Say “Allah is one”

2 - Everyone needs Allah, Allah needs none

3 - He never had offspring nor was He born

4 - Nobody is equal to him

Al-Falaq (The Daybreak)

1 - I seek refuge in the Lord of Daybreak

2 - from the evil of everything he has created

3 - and from the evil of the darkness / night when it settles / gets dark

4 - and from the evil of the witches who blow on the knots (preforming magic / spells)

5 - and from the evil of an envier when they envy

Al-Nas

1- I seek refuge with the lord of mankind

2- the king / master of mankind

3- the god of mankind

4- from the evil of the whisperer

5- who whispers into the hearts of people

6- from among jinn and mankind