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سورة البروج

Al-Buruj · The Mansions of the Stars

22 ayahs Makki Page 590 Juz 30
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
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Madd (maddah sign)Ghunnah (doubled noon / meem)Qalqalah
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وَٱلسَّمَآءِ ذَاتِ ٱلْبُرُوجِ ﴿١﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallBy the heaven, holding mansions of the stars,

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وَٱلْيَوْمِ ٱلْمَوْعُودِ ﴿٢﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd by the Promised Day.

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وَشَاهِدٍ وَمَشْهُودٍ ﴿٣﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd by the witness and that whereunto he beareth testimony,

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قُتِلَ أَصْحَـٰبُ ٱلْأُخْدُودِ ﴿٤﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall(Self-)destroyed were the owners of the ditch

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ٱلنَّارِ ذَاتِ ٱلْوَقُودِ ﴿٥﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallOf the fuel-fed fire,

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إِذْ هُمْ عَلَيْهَا قُعُودٌ ﴿٦﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallWhen they sat by it,

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وَهُمْ عَلَىٰ مَا يَفْعَلُونَ بِٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ شُهُودٌ ﴿٧﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd were themselves the witnesses of what they did to the believers.

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وَمَا نَقَمُوا۟ مِنْهُمْ إِلَّآ أَن يُؤْمِنُوا۟ بِٱللَّهِ ٱلْعَزِيزِ ٱلْحَمِيدِ ﴿٨﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallThey had naught against them save that they believed in Allah, the Mighty, the Owner of Praise,

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ٱلَّذِى لَهُۥ مُلْكُ ٱلسَّمَـٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ ۚ وَٱللَّهُ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَىْءٍ شَهِيدٌ ﴿٩﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallHim unto Whom belongeth the Sovereignty of the heavens and the earth; and Allah is of all things the Witness.

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إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ فَتَنُوا۟ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَٱلْمُؤْمِنَـٰتِ ثُمَّ لَمْ يَتُوبُوا۟ فَلَهُمْ عَذَابُ جَهَنَّمَ وَلَهُمْ عَذَابُ ٱلْحَرِيقِ ﴿١٠﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallLo! they who persecute believing men and believing women and repent not, theirs verily will be the doom of hell, and theirs the doom of burning.

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إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَعَمِلُوا۟ ٱلصَّـٰلِحَـٰتِ لَهُمْ جَنَّـٰتٌ تَجْرِى مِن تَحْتِهَا ٱلْأَنْهَـٰرُ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ ٱلْفَوْزُ ٱلْكَبِيرُ ﴿١١﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallLo! those who believe and do good works, theirs will be Gardens underneath which rivers flow. That is the Great Success.

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إِنَّ بَطْشَ رَبِّكَ لَشَدِيدٌ ﴿١٢﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallLo! the punishment of thy Lord is stern.

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إِنَّهُۥ هُوَ يُبْدِئُ وَيُعِيدُ ﴿١٣﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallLo! He it is Who produceth, then reproduceth,

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وَهُوَ ٱلْغَفُورُ ٱلْوَدُودُ ﴿١٤﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd He is the Forgiving, the Loving,

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ذُو ٱلْعَرْشِ ٱلْمَجِيدُ ﴿١٥﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallLord of the Throne of Glory,

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فَعَّالٌ لِّمَا يُرِيدُ ﴿١٦﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallDoer of what He will.

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هَلْ أَتَىٰكَ حَدِيثُ ٱلْجُنُودِ ﴿١٧﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallHath there come unto thee the story of the hosts

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فِرْعَوْنَ وَثَمُودَ ﴿١٨﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallOf Pharaoh and (the tribe of) Thamud?

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بَلِ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ فِى تَكْذِيبٍ ﴿١٩﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallNay, but those who disbelieve live in denial

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وَٱللَّهُ مِن وَرَآئِهِم مُّحِيطٌۢ ﴿٢٠﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd Allah, all unseen, surroundeth them.

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بَلْ هُوَ قُرْءَانٌ مَّجِيدٌ ﴿٢١﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallNay, but it is a glorious Qur'an.

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فِى لَوْحٍ مَّحْفُوظٍۭ ﴿٢٢﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallOn a guarded tablet.

Mishary Rashid AlafasyMurattal · Al-Buruj
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Quran text: Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani), tanzil.net – CC BY 3.0, unchanged. Translation: The Meaning of the Glorious Koran, Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall – Public domain (published 1930).