لَآ أُقْسِمُ بِيَوْمِ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ ١
lā uq'simu biyawmi l-qiyāmati
1. I swear by the Day of Resurrection
Surah Al-Qiyamah transliteration
سورة القيامة
Here is Surah Al-Qiyamah (“The Resurrection”) in transliteration: each of its 40 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.
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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
وَلَآ أُقْسِمُ بِٱلنَّفْسِ ٱللَّوَّامَةِ ٢
walā uq'simu bil-nafsi l-lawāmati
2. And I swear by the reproaching soul1800 [to the certainty of resurrection].
Notes
[1800] i.e., that of the believer, which blames him when he falls into sin or error.
أَيَحْسَبُ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ أَلَّن نَّجْمَعَ عِظَامَهُۥ ٣
ayaḥsabu l-insānu allan najmaʿa ʿiẓāmahu
3. Does man think that We will not assemble his bones?
بَلَىٰ قَٰدِرِينَ عَلَىٰٓ أَن نُّسَوِّىَ بَنَانَهُۥ ٤
balā qādirīna ʿalā an nusawwiya banānahu
4. Yes. [We are] Able [even] to proportion his fingertips.
بَلْ يُرِيدُ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ لِيَفْجُرَ أَمَامَهُۥ ٥
bal yurīdu l-insānu liyafjura amāmahu
5. But man desires to continue in sin.1801
Notes
[1801] Literally, "to sin ahead of him." This refers to the disbeliever, who denies the Day of Account.
يَسْـَٔلُ أَيَّانَ يَوْمُ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ ٦
yasalu ayyāna yawmu l-qiyāmati
6. He asks, "When is the Day of Resurrection?"
فَإِذَا بَرِقَ ٱلْبَصَرُ ٧
fa-idhā bariqa l-baṣaru
7. So when vision is dazzled
وَخَسَفَ ٱلْقَمَرُ ٨
wakhasafa l-qamaru
8. And the moon darkens
وَجُمِعَ ٱلشَّمْسُ وَٱلْقَمَرُ ٩
wajumiʿa l-shamsu wal-qamaru
9. And the sun and the moon are joined,
يَقُولُ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ يَوْمَئِذٍ أَيْنَ ٱلْمَفَرُّ ١٠
yaqūlu l-insānu yawma-idhin ayna l-mafaru
10. Man will say on that Day, "Where is the [place of] escape?"
كَلَّا لَا وَزَرَ ١١
kallā lā wazara
11. No! There is no refuge.
إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ يَوْمَئِذٍ ٱلْمُسْتَقَرُّ ١٢
ilā rabbika yawma-idhin l-mus'taqaru
12. To your Lord, that Day, is the [place of] permanence.
يُنَبَّؤُا۟ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ يَوْمَئِذٍۭ بِمَا قَدَّمَ وَأَخَّرَ ١٣
yunabba-u l-insānu yawma-idhin bimā qaddama wa-akhara
13. Man will be informed that Day of what he sent ahead1802 and kept back.1803
Notes
[1802] i.e., his deeds, which await him in the Hereafter.
[1803] i.e., that which he did not do or which he delayed.
بَلِ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ عَلَىٰ نَفْسِهِۦ بَصِيرَةٌ ١٤
bali l-insānu ʿalā nafsihi baṣīratun
14. Rather, man, against himself, will be a witness,1804
Notes
[1804] As described in 36:65 and 41:20-23.
وَلَوْ أَلْقَىٰ مَعَاذِيرَهُۥ ١٥
walaw alqā maʿādhīrahu
15. Even if he presents his excuses.
لَا تُحَرِّكْ بِهِۦ لِسَانَكَ لِتَعْجَلَ بِهِۦٓ ١٦
lā tuḥarrik bihi lisānaka litaʿjala bihi
16. Move not your tongue with it, [O Muḥammad], to hasten with it [i.e., recitation of the Qur’ān].
إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا جَمْعَهُۥ وَقُرْءَانَهُۥ ١٧
inna ʿalaynā jamʿahu waqur'ānahu
17. Indeed, upon Us is its collection [in your heart] and [to make possible] its recitation.
فَإِذَا قَرَأْنَٰهُ فَٱتَّبِعْ قُرْءَانَهُۥ ١٨
fa-idhā qaranāhu fa-ittabiʿ qur'ānahu
18. So when We have recited it [through Gabriel], then follow its recitation.
ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا بَيَانَهُۥ ١٩
thumma inna ʿalaynā bayānahu
19. Then upon Us is its clarification [to you].
كَلَّا بَلْ تُحِبُّونَ ٱلْعَاجِلَةَ ٢٠
kallā bal tuḥibbūna l-ʿājilata
20. No! But you [i.e., mankind] love the immediate
وَتَذَرُونَ ٱلْـَٔاخِرَةَ ٢١
watadharūna l-ākhirata
21. And leave [i.e., neglect] the Hereafter.
وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَّاضِرَةٌ ٢٢
wujūhun yawma-idhin nāḍiratun
22. [Some] faces, that Day, will be radiant,
إِلَىٰ رَبِّهَا نَاظِرَةٌ ٢٣
ilā rabbihā nāẓiratun
23. Looking at their Lord.1805
Notes
[1805] The people of Paradise will actually see their Creator in the Hereafter.
وَوُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍۭ بَاسِرَةٌ ٢٤
wawujūhun yawma-idhin bāsiratun
24. And [some] faces, that Day, will be contorted,
تَظُنُّ أَن يُفْعَلَ بِهَا فَاقِرَةٌ ٢٥
taẓunnu an yuf'ʿala bihā fāqiratun
25. Expecting that there will be done to them [something] backbreaking.
كَلَّآ إِذَا بَلَغَتِ ٱلتَّرَاقِىَ ٢٦
kallā idhā balaghati l-tarāqiya
26. No! When it [i.e., the soul] has reached the collar bones1806
Notes
[1806] At the time it is about to leave the body when one is on the verge of death.
وَقِيلَ مَنْ رَاقٍ ٢٧
waqīla man rāqin
27. And it is said, "Who will cure [him]?"
وَظَنَّ أَنَّهُ ٱلْفِرَاقُ ٢٨
waẓanna annahu l-firāqu
28. And he [i.e., the dying one] is certain that it is the [time of] separation
وَٱلْتَفَّتِ ٱلسَّاقُ بِٱلسَّاقِ ٢٩
wal-tafati l-sāqu bil-sāqi
29. And the leg is wound about the leg,1807
Notes
[1807] From the difficulties the person faces at death or his sudden awareness of the realities of both this world and the Hereafter. It may also refer to his shrouding after death.
إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ يَوْمَئِذٍ ٱلْمَسَاقُ ٣٠
ilā rabbika yawma-idhin l-masāqu
30. To your Lord, that Day, will be the procession.1808
Notes
[1808] Literally, "driving" or "herding" or "the place to which one is driven."
فَلَا صَدَّقَ وَلَا صَلَّىٰ ٣١
falā ṣaddaqa walā ṣallā
31. And he [i.e., the disbeliever] had not believed, nor had he prayed.
وَلَٰكِن كَذَّبَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ ٣٢
walākin kadhaba watawallā
32. But [instead], he denied and turned away.
ثُمَّ ذَهَبَ إِلَىٰٓ أَهْلِهِۦ يَتَمَطَّىٰٓ ٣٣
thumma dhahaba ilā ahlihi yatamaṭṭā
33. And then he went to his people, swaggering [in pride].
أَوْلَىٰ لَكَ فَأَوْلَىٰ ٣٤
awlā laka fa-awlā
34. Woe to you, and woe!
ثُمَّ أَوْلَىٰ لَكَ فَأَوْلَىٰٓ ٣٥
thumma awlā laka fa-awlā
35. Then woe to you, and woe!
أَيَحْسَبُ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ أَن يُتْرَكَ سُدًى ٣٦
ayaḥsabu l-insānu an yut'raka sudan
36. Does man think that he will be left neglected?1809
Notes
[1809] i.e., to no end, without responsibility, or without being returned to the Creator for judgement.
أَلَمْ يَكُ نُطْفَةً مِّن مَّنِىٍّ يُمْنَىٰ ٣٧
alam yaku nuṭ'fatan min maniyyin yum'nā
37. Had he not been a sperm from semen emitted?
ثُمَّ كَانَ عَلَقَةً فَخَلَقَ فَسَوَّىٰ ٣٨
thumma kāna ʿalaqatan fakhalaqa fasawwā
38. Then he was a clinging clot, and [Allāh] created [his form] and proportioned [him]
فَجَعَلَ مِنْهُ ٱلزَّوْجَيْنِ ٱلذَّكَرَ وَٱلْأُنثَىٰٓ ٣٩
fajaʿala min'hu l-zawjayni l-dhakara wal-unthā
39. And made of him two mates, the male and the female.
أَلَيْسَ ذَٰلِكَ بِقَٰدِرٍ عَلَىٰٓ أَن يُحْـِۧىَ ٱلْمَوْتَىٰ ٤٠
alaysa dhālika biqādirin ʿalā an yuḥ'yiya l-mawtā
40. Is not that [Creator] Able to give life to the dead?
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