سورة السجدة
Surah As-Sajdah
The Prostration
Surah As-Sajdah (The Prostration) is the 32nd surah of the Quran. It has 30 verses and is a Meccan surah. Below is the complete Arabic text with an English translation and transliteration, verse by verse.
Also searched as: Surah Sajdah
بِسۡمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
الٓمٓ﴿١﴾
Aliflammeem
Alif, Lām, Meem.
تَنزِيلُ ٱلۡكِتَٰبِ لَا رَيۡبَ فِيهِ مِن رَّبِّ ٱلۡعَٰلَمِينَ﴿٢﴾
Tanzeelu alkitabi la rayba feehi min rabbi alʿalameena
[This is] the revelation of the Book about which there is no doubt from the Lord of the worlds.
أَمۡ يَقُولُونَ ٱفۡتَرَىٰهُ ۚ بَلۡ هُوَ ٱلۡحَقُّ مِن رَّبِّكَ لِتُنذِرَ قَوۡمࣰا مَّآ أَتَىٰهُم مِّن نَّذِيرࣲ مِّن قَبۡلِكَ لَعَلَّهُمۡ يَهۡتَدُونَ﴿٣﴾
Am yaqooloona iftarahu bal huwa alhaqqu min rabbika litunthira qawman ma atahum min natheerin min qablika laʿallahum yahtadoona
Or do they say, "He invented it"? Rather, it is the truth from your Lord, [O Muḥammad], that you may warn a people to whom no warner has come before you [so] perhaps they will be guided.
ٱللَّهُ ٱلَّذِي خَلَقَ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَ ٱلۡأَرۡضَ وَ مَا بَيۡنَهُمَا فِي سِتَّةِ أَيَّامࣲ ثُمَّ ٱسۡتَوَىٰ عَلَى ٱلۡعَرۡشِ ۖ مَا لَكُم مِّن دُونِهِۦ مِن وَلِيࣲّ وَ لَا شَفِيعٍ ۚ أَفَلَا تَتَذَكَّرُونَ﴿٤﴾
Allahu allathee khalaqa alssamawati waalarda wama baynahuma fee sittati ayyamin thumma istawa ʿala alʿarshi ma lakum min doonihi min waliyyin wala shafeeʿin afala tatathakkaroona
It is Allāh who created the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them in six days; then He established Himself above the Throne. You have not besides Him any protector or any intercessor; so will you not be reminded?
يُدَبِّرُ ٱلۡأَمۡرَ مِنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ إِلَى ٱلۡأَرۡضِ ثُمَّ يَعۡرُجُ إِلَيۡهِ فِي يَوۡمࣲ كَانَ مِقۡدَارُهُۥٓ أَلۡفَ سَنَةࣲ مِّمَّا تَعُدُّونَ﴿٥﴾
Yudabbiru alamra mina alssamai ila alardi thumma yaʿruju ilayhi fee yawmin kana miqdaruhu alfa sanatin mimma taʿuddoona
He arranges [each] matter from the heaven to the earth; then it will ascend to Him in a Day, the extent of which is a thousand years of those which you count.
ذَٰلِكَ عَٰلِمُ ٱلۡغَيۡبِ وَ ٱلشَّهَٰدَةِ ٱلۡعَزِيزُ ٱلرَّحِيمُ﴿٦﴾
Thalika ʿalimu alghaybi waalshshahadati alʿazeezu alrraheemu
That is the Knower of the unseen and the witnessed, the Exalted in Might, the Merciful,
ٱلَّذِيٓ أَحۡسَنَ كُلَّ شَيۡءٍ خَلَقَهُۥ ۖ وَ بَدَأَ خَلۡقَ ٱلۡإِنسَٰنِ مِن طِينࣲ﴿٧﴾
Allathee ahsana kulla shayin khalaqahu wabadaa khalqa alinsani min teenin
Who perfected everything which He created and began the creation of man from clay.
ثُمَّ جَعَلَ نَسۡلَهُۥ مِن سُلَٰلَةࣲ مِّن مَّآءࣲ مَّهِينࣲ﴿٨﴾
Thumma jaʿala naslahu min sulalatin min main maheenin
Then He made his posterity out of the extract of a liquid disdained.
ثُمَّ سَوَّىٰهُ وَ نَفَخَ فِيهِ مِن رُّوحِهِۦ ۖ وَ جَعَلَ لَكُمُ ٱلسَّمۡعَ وَ ٱلۡأَبۡصَٰرَ وَ ٱلۡأَفۡـِٔدَةَ ۚ قَلِيلࣰا مَّا تَشۡكُرُونَ﴿٩﴾
Thumma sawwahu wanafakha feehi min roohihi wajaʿala lakumu alssamʿa waalabsara waalafidata qaleelan ma tashkuroona
Then He proportioned him and breathed into him from His [created] soul and made for you hearing and vision and hearts [i.e., intellect]; little are you grateful.
وَ قَالُوٓاْ أَءِذَا ضَلَلۡنَا فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ أَءِنَّا لَفِي خَلۡقࣲ جَدِيدِۭ ۚ بَلۡ هُم بِلِقَآءِ رَبِّهِمۡ كَٰفِرُونَ﴿١٠﴾
Waqaloo aitha dalalna fee alardi ainna lafee khalqin jadeedin bal hum biliqai rabbihim kafiroona
And they say, "When we are lost [i.e., disintegrated] within the earth, will we indeed be [recreated] in a new creation?" Rather, they are, in the meeting with their Lord, disbelievers.
قُلۡ يَتَوَفَّىٰكُم مَّلَكُ ٱلۡمَوۡتِ ٱلَّذِي وُكِّلَ بِكُمۡ ثُمَّ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكُمۡ تُرۡجَعُونَ﴿١١﴾
Qul yatawaffakum malaku almawti allathee wukkila bikum thumma ila rabbikum turjaʿoona
Say, "The angel of death who has been entrusted with you will take you. Then to your Lord you will be returned."
وَ لَوۡ تَرَىٰٓ إِذِ ٱلۡمُجۡرِمُونَ نَاكِسُواْ رُءُوسِهِمۡ عِندَ رَبِّهِمۡ رَبَّنَآ أَبۡصَرۡنَا وَ سَمِعۡنَا فَٱرۡجِعۡنَا نَعۡمَلۡ صَٰلِحًا إِنَّا مُوقِنُونَ﴿١٢﴾
Walaw tara ithi almujrimoona nakisoo ruoosihim ʿinda rabbihim rabbana absarna wasamiʿna faarjiʿna naʿmal salihan inna mooqinoona
If you could but see when the criminals are hanging their heads before their Lord, [saying], "Our Lord, we have seen and heard, so return us [to the world]; we will work righteousness. Indeed, we are [now] certain."
وَ لَوۡ شِئۡنَا لَأٓتَيۡنَا كُلَّ نَفۡسٍ هُدَىٰهَا وَ لَٰكِنۡ حَقَّ ٱلۡقَوۡلُ مِنِّي لَأَمۡلَأَنَّ جَهَنَّمَ مِنَ ٱلۡجِنَّةِ وَ ٱلنَّاسِ أَجۡمَعِينَ﴿١٣﴾
Walaw shina laatayna kulla nafsin hudaha walakin haqqa alqawlu minnee laamlaanna jahannama mina aljinnati waalnnasi ajmaʿeena
And if We had willed, We could have given every soul its guidance, but the word from Me will come into effect [that] "I will surely fill Hell with jinn and people all together.
فَذُوقُواْ بِمَا نَسِيتُمۡ لِقَآءَ يَوۡمِكُمۡ هَٰذَآ إِنَّا نَسِينَٰكُمۡ ۖ وَ ذُوقُواْ عَذَابَ ٱلۡخُلۡدِ بِمَا كُنتُمۡ تَعۡمَلُونَ﴿١٤﴾
Fathooqoo bima naseetum liqaa yawmikum hatha inna naseenakum wathooqoo ʿathaba alkhuldi bima kuntum taʿmaloona
So taste [punishment] because you forgot the meeting of this, your Day; indeed, We have [accordingly] forgotten you. And taste the punishment of eternity for what you used to do."
إِنَّمَا يُؤۡمِنُ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا ٱلَّذِينَ إِذَا ذُكِّرُواْ بِهَا خَرُّواْۤ سُجَّدࣰاۤ وَ سَبَّحُواْ بِحَمۡدِ رَبِّهِمۡ وَ هُمۡ لَا يَسۡتَكۡبِرُونَ ۩﴿١٥﴾
Innama yuminu biayatina allatheena itha thukkiroo biha kharroo sujjadan wasabbahoo bihamdi rabbihim wahum la yastakbiroona
Only those believe in Our verses who, when they are reminded by them, fall down in prostration and exalt [Allāh] with praise of their Lord, and they are not arrogant.
تَتَجَافَىٰ جُنُوبُهُمۡ عَنِ ٱلۡمَضَاجِعِ يَدۡعُونَ رَبَّهُمۡ خَوۡفࣰا وَ طَمَعࣰا وَ مِمَّا رَزَقۡنَٰهُمۡ يُنفِقُونَ﴿١٦﴾
Tatajafa junoobuhum ʿani almadajiʿi yadʿoona rabbahum khawfan watamaʿan wamimma razaqnahum yunfiqoona
Their sides part [i.e., they arise] from [their] beds; they supplicate their Lord in fear and aspiration, and from what We have provided them, they spend.
فَلَا تَعۡلَمُ نَفۡسࣱ مَّآ أُخۡفِيَ لَهُم مِّن قُرَّةِ أَعۡيُنࣲ جَزَآءَۢ بِمَا كَانُواْ يَعۡمَلُونَ﴿١٧﴾
Fala taʿlamu nafsun ma okhfiya lahum min qurrati aʿyunin jazaan bima kanoo yaʿmaloona
And no soul knows what has been hidden for them of comfort for eyes [i.e., satisfaction] as reward for what they used to do.
أَفَمَن كَانَ مُؤۡمِنࣰا كَمَن كَانَ فَاسِقࣰا ۚ لَّا يَسۡتَوُۥنَ﴿١٨﴾
Afaman kana muminan kaman kana fasiqan la yastawoona
Then is one who was a believer like one who was defiantly disobedient? They are not equal.
أَمَّا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ وَ عَمِلُواْ ٱلصَّٰلِحَٰتِ فَلَهُمۡ جَنَّٰتُ ٱلۡمَأۡوَىٰ نُزُلَۢا بِمَا كَانُواْ يَعۡمَلُونَ﴿١٩﴾
Amma allatheena amanoo waʿamiloo alssalihati falahum jannatu almawa nuzulan bima kanoo yaʿmaloona
As for those who believed and did righteous deeds, for them will be the Gardens of Refuge as accommodation for what they used to do.
وَ أَمَّا ٱلَّذِينَ فَسَقُواْ فَمَأۡوَىٰهُمُ ٱلنَّارُ ۖ كُلَّمَآ أَرَادُوٓاْ أَن يَخۡرُجُواْ مِنۡهَآ أُعِيدُواْ فِيهَا وَ قِيلَ لَهُمۡ ذُوقُواْ عَذَابَ ٱلنَّارِ ٱلَّذِي كُنتُم بِهِۦ تُكَذِّبُونَ﴿٢٠﴾
Waamma allatheena fasaqoo famawahumu alnnaru kullama aradoo an yakhrujoo minha oʿeedoo feeha waqeela lahum thooqoo ʿathaba alnnari allathee kuntum bihi tukaththiboona
But as for those who defiantly disobeyed, their refuge is the Fire. Every time they wish to emerge from it, they will be returned to it while it is said to them, "Taste the punishment of the Fire which you used to deny."
وَ لَنُذِيقَنَّهُم مِّنَ ٱلۡعَذَابِ ٱلۡأَدۡنَىٰ دُونَ ٱلۡعَذَابِ ٱلۡأَكۡبَرِ لَعَلَّهُمۡ يَرۡجِعُونَ﴿٢١﴾
Walanutheeqannahum mina alʿathabi aladna doona alʿathabi alakbari laʿallahum yarjiʿoona
And We will surely let them taste the nearer punishment short of the greater punishment that perhaps they will return [i.e., repent].
وَ مَنۡ أَظۡلَمُ مِمَّن ذُكِّرَ بِـَٔايَٰتِ رَبِّهِۦ ثُمَّ أَعۡرَضَ عَنۡهَآ ۚ إِنَّا مِنَ ٱلۡمُجۡرِمِينَ مُنتَقِمُونَ﴿٢٢﴾
Waman athlamu mimman thukkira biayati rabbihi thumma aʿrada ʿanha inna mina almujrimeena muntaqimoona
And who is more unjust than one who is reminded of the verses of his Lord; then he turns away from them? Indeed We, from the criminals, will take retribution.
وَ لَقَدۡ ءَاتَيۡنَا مُوسَى ٱلۡكِتَٰبَ فَلَا تَكُن فِي مِرۡيَةࣲ مِّن لِّقَآئِهِۦ ۖ وَ جَعَلۡنَٰهُ هُدࣰى لِّبَنِيٓ إِسۡرَٰٓءِيلَ﴿٢٣﴾
Walaqad atayna moosa alkitaba fala takun fee miryatin min liqaihi wajaʿalnahu hudan libanee israeela
And We certainly gave Moses the Scripture, so do not be in doubt over his meeting. And We made it [i.e., the Torah] guidance for the Children of Israel.
وَ جَعَلۡنَا مِنۡهُمۡ أَئِمَّةࣰ يَهۡدُونَ بِأَمۡرِنَا لَمَّا صَبَرُواْ ۖ وَ كَانُواْ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا يُوقِنُونَ﴿٢٤﴾
Wajaʿalna minhum aimmatan yahdoona biamrina lamma sabaroo wakanoo biayatina yooqinoona
And We made from among them leaders guiding by Our command when they were patient and [when] they were certain of Our signs.
إِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ يَفۡصِلُ بَيۡنَهُمۡ يَوۡمَ ٱلۡقِيَٰمَةِ فِيمَا كَانُواْ فِيهِ يَخۡتَلِفُونَ﴿٢٥﴾
Inna rabbaka huwa yafsilu baynahum yawma alqiyamati feema kanoo feehi yakhtalifoona
Indeed, your Lord will judge between them on the Day of Resurrection concerning that over which they used to differ.
أَوَلَمۡ يَهۡدِ لَهُمۡ كَمۡ أَهۡلَكۡنَا مِن قَبۡلِهِم مِّنَ ٱلۡقُرُونِ يَمۡشُونَ فِي مَسَٰكِنِهِمۡ ۚ إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَأٓيَٰتٍ ۚ أَفَلَا يَسۡمَعُونَ﴿٢٦﴾
Awalam yahdi lahum kam ahlakna min qablihim mina alqurooni yamshoona fee masakinihim inna fee thalika laayatin afala yasmaʿoona
Has it not become clear to them how many generations We destroyed before them, [as] they walk among their dwellings? Indeed in that are signs; then do they not hear?
أَوَلَمۡ يَرَوۡاْ أَنَّا نَسُوقُ ٱلۡمَآءَ إِلَى ٱلۡأَرۡضِ ٱلۡجُرُزِ فَنُخۡرِجُ بِهِۦ زَرۡعࣰا تَأۡكُلُ مِنۡهُ أَنۡعَٰمُهُمۡ وَ أَنفُسُهُمۡ ۚ أَفَلَا يُبۡصِرُونَ﴿٢٧﴾
Awalam yaraw anna nasooqu almaa ila alardi aljuruzi fanukhriju bihi zarʿan takulu minhu anʿamuhum waanfusuhum afala yubsiroona
Have they not seen that We drive water [in clouds] to barren land and bring forth thereby crops from which their livestock eat and [they] themselves? Then do they not see?
وَ يَقُولُونَ مَتَىٰ هَٰذَا ٱلۡفَتۡحُ إِن كُنتُمۡ صَٰدِقِينَ﴿٢٨﴾
Wayaqooloona mata hatha alfathu in kuntum sadiqeena
And they say, "When will be this conquest, if you should be truthful?"
قُلۡ يَوۡمَ ٱلۡفَتۡحِ لَا يَنفَعُ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوٓاْ إِيمَٰنُهُمۡ وَ لَا هُمۡ يُنظَرُونَ﴿٢٩﴾
Qul yawma alfathi la yanfaʿu allatheena kafaroo eemanuhum wala hum yuntharoona
Say, [O Muḥammad], "On the Day of Conquest the belief of those who had disbelieved will not benefit them, nor will they be reprieved."
فَأَعۡرِضۡ عَنۡهُمۡ وَ ٱنتَظِرۡ إِنَّهُم مُّنتَظِرُونَ﴿٣٠﴾
Faaʿrid ʿanhum waintathir innahum muntathiroona
So turn away from them and wait. Indeed, they are waiting.
Translation: Saheeh International · Transliteration
About this surah
Name
The Surah has been entitled As-Sajdah after the theme of Sajdah (prostration) as expressed in verse 15.
Period of Revelation
From the style of the Surah it appears that it was sent down during the middle Makkah period, more particularly in its initial stage, for one does not find in its background that severity of the persecution and tyranny which one finds in the Surahs sent down in the later stages.
Theme and Topics
The main theme of the Surah is to remove the doubts of the people concerning Tauhid, the Hereafter and the Prophethood, and to invite them to all these three realities. The disbelievers of Makkah, when they talked of the Holy Prophet in private, said to one another, "This person is forging strange things sometimes he gives news of what will happen after death. He says: when you have become dust, you will be called to render your accounts, and there will be Hell and Heaven. Sometimes he says: these gods and goddesses and saints are nonentities: One God alone is the Deity. And sometimes he says: the discourses which I recite are not my own but Allah's Word. All these are strange things which he presents."The answer to these doubts and misgivings forms the theme and subject matter of this Surah.
In this connection, the disbelievers have been told: "Most certainly it is Allah's Word, which has been sent down in order to arouse a people who are sunk in heedlessness, being deprived of the bounties and blessings of Prophethood. How can you call it a fabrication when its having been sent dawn from Allah is manifest and self evident?"
Then, they have been asked, "Use your common sense and judge for yourselves which of the things presented by the Quran is strange and novel?Look at the administration of the heavens and the earth: consider your own creation and structure. Don't these things testify to the teaching which this Prophet is presenting before you in the Quran? Does the system of the universe point to Tauhid or to shirk? When you consider this whole system and your own creation, does your intellect testify that the One Who has given you your present existence, will not be able to create you once again?"
Then a scene of the Hereafter has been depicted, the fruits of belief and the evil consequences of disbelief have been mentioned and the people exhorted to give up disbelief even before they meet their doom and accept the teaching of the Quran, which will be to their own advantage in the Hereafter.
Then they have been told: It is Allah's supreme Mercy that He does not seize man immediately for his errors to punish him finally and decisively but warns him beforehand by afflicting him with small troubles and hardships and calamities and losses and strokes of misfortune so that he may wake up and take admonition.
Then it is said: "This is not the first and novel event of its kind that a Book has been sent down upon a man from God. Before this the Book had been sent upon Moses also, which you all know. There is nothing strange in this at which you should marvel. Be assured that this Book has come down from God, and note it well that the same will happen now as has already happened in the time of Moses. Leadership now will be bestowed only on those who will accept this Divine Book. Those who reject it shall be doomed to failure."
Then the disbelievers of Makkah have been admonished to the effect:"See the end of the doomed communities of the past by whose ruined habitations you pass during your trade journeys. Will you like to meet the same doom yourself? Do not be deluded by the apparent and superficial. Today you see that no one is listening to Muhammad (upon whom be Allah's peace) except a few young men and some slaves and poor men, and he is being made the target of curses and ugly remarks from every side. From this you have formed the wrong impression that his mission will fail. But this is only a deception of your eyes. Don't you see the phenomenon in your daily life that a land previously lying absolutely barren starts swelling with vegetation and plant life everywhere just by a single shower of the rain though before this no one could ever imagine that under the layers of its soil there lay hidden such treasures of greenery and herbage?"
In conclusion, the Holy Prophet has been addressed to the effect: "These people mock at what you say and ask as to when you will attain this decisive victory. Tell them: when the time comes for the final judgment regarding you and us, believing then will not profit you at all. If you have to believe, believe now. But if you intend to await the final judgment, then await it as you please."
Source: Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - Tafhim al-Qur'an - The Meaning of the Quran