أَرَءَيْتَ ٱلَّذِى يُكَذِّبُ بِٱلدِّينِ ١
ara-ayta alladhī yukadhibu bil-dīni
1. Have you seen the one who denies the Recompense?
Surah Al-Ma’un transliteration
سورة الماعون
Here is Surah Al-Ma’un (“The Small Kindnesses”) in transliteration: each of its 7 verses in Arabic, then in Latin letters (one Latin word for each Arabic word) and translated into English. Start the recitation: each word lights up as it is pronounced.
Letters with a bar (ā, ī, ū) are long, ʿ marks the letter ʿayn, ḥ, ṣ, ḍ, ṭ, ẓ the emphatic letters. Hover over or tap an Arabic word to see its meaning.
Tajweed rules
- Hamzat al-wasl (silent)
- Silent letter
- Lam shamsiyyah (assimilated)
- Normal madd (2 counts)
- Permissible madd (2, 4 or 6 counts)
- Obligatory madd (4 or 5 counts)
- Necessary madd (6 counts)
- Ghunnah (nasalisation, 2 counts)
- Qalqalah (echo)
- Ikhfa (concealment)
- Ikhfa shafawi (meem)
- Idgham with ghunnah
- Idgham without ghunnah
- Idgham shafawi (meem)
- Idgham mutajanisayn
- Idgham mutaqaribayn
- Iqlab (noon becomes meem)
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
bis'mi l-lahi l-raḥmāni l-raḥīmi
فَذَٰلِكَ ٱلَّذِى يَدُعُّ ٱلْيَتِيمَ ٢
fadhālika alladhī yaduʿʿu l-yatīma
2. For that is the one who drives away the orphan
وَلَا يَحُضُّ عَلَىٰ طَعَامِ ٱلْمِسْكِينِ ٣
walā yaḥuḍḍu ʿalā ṭaʿāmi l-mis'kīni
3. And does not encourage the feeding of the poor.
فَوَيْلٌ لِّلْمُصَلِّينَ ٤
fawaylun lil'muṣallīna
4. So woe to those who pray
ٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ عَن صَلَاتِهِمْ سَاهُونَ ٥
alladhīna hum ʿan ṣalātihim sāhūna
5. [But] who are heedless of their prayer2000 -
Notes
[2000] i.e., the hypocrites who are unconcerned if they miss prayers when no one sees them.
ٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ يُرَآءُونَ ٦
alladhīna hum yurāūna
6. Those who make show [of their deeds]
وَيَمْنَعُونَ ٱلْمَاعُونَ ٧
wayamnaʿūna l-māʿūna
7. And withhold [simple] assistance.
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