Surah Yaseen (Yasin) – The Heart of the Quran (سورۃ یٰس)

Surah Yasin (سورۃ یٰس) – Full 83 Verses Arabic + Transliteration + English Translation

Ayah 1 Arabic: يٰسٓ Transliteration: Yā Sīn. English: Yaseen.

Ayah 2 Arabic: وَالْقُرْآنِ الْحَكِيمِ Transliteration: Wal-Qur’ānil-ḥakīm. English: By the wise Quran.

Ayah 3 Arabic: إِنَّكَ لَمِنَ الْمُرْسَلِينَ Transliteration: Innaka laminal-mursalīn. English: Indeed you, [O Muhammad], are from among the messengers.

Ayah 4 Arabic: عَلَىٰ صِرَاطٍ مُّسْتَقِيمٍ Transliteration: ʿAlā ṣirāṭim-mustaqīm. English: On a straight path.

Ayah 5 Arabic: تَنزِيلَ الْعَزِيزِ الرَّحِيمِ Transliteration: Tanzīlal-ʿazīzir-raḥīm. English: [It is] a revelation of the Exalted in Might, the Merciful.

Ayah 6 Arabic: لِتُنذِرَ قَوْمًا مَّا أُنذِرَ آبَاؤُهُمْ فَهُمْ غَافِلُونَ Transliteration: Li-tundhira qawmam mā undhira ābā’uhum fa-hum ghāfilūn. English: That you may warn a people whose forefathers were not warned, so they are unaware.

Ayah 7 Arabic: لَقَدْ حَقَّ الْقَوْلُ عَلَىٰ أَكْثَرِهِمْ فَهُمْ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ Transliteration: Laqad ḥaqqal-qawlu ʿalā aktharihim fa-hum lā yu’minūn. English: Already the word has come into effect upon most of them, so they will not believe.

Ayah 8 Arabic: إِنَّا جَعَلْنَا فِي أَعْنَاقِهِمْ أَغْلَالًا فَهِيَ إِلَى الْأَذْقَانِ فَهُم مُّقْمَحُونَ Transliteration: Innā jaʿalnā fī aʿnāqihim aghlālan fa-hiya ilal-adhqāni fa-hum muqmaḥūn. English: Indeed, We have put shackles on their necks, reaching to their chins, so they are forced to keep their heads raised.

Ayah 9 Arabic: وَجَعَلْنَا مِن بَيْنِ أَيْدِيهِمْ سَدًّا وَمِنْ خَلْفِهِمْ سَدًّا فَأَغْشَيْنَاهُمْ فَهُمْ لَا يُبْصِرُونَ Transliteration: Wa jaʿalnā mim bayni aydīhim saddan wa min khalfihim saddan fa-aghshaynāhum fa-hum lā yubṣirūn. English: And We have put a barrier in front of them and a barrier behind them, and We have covered them, so they do not see.

Ayah 10 Arabic: وَسَوَاءٌ عَلَيْهِمْ أَأَنذَرْتَهُمْ أَمْ لَمْ تُنذِرْهُمْ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ Transliteration: Wa sawā’un ʿalayhim a-andhartahum am lam tundhirhum lā yu’minūn. English: And it is all the same for them whether you warn them or do not warn them — they will not believe.

Ayah 11 Arabic: إِنَّمَا تُنذِرُ مَنِ اتَّبَعَ الذِّكْرَ وَخَشِيَ الرَّحْمَٰنَ بِالْغَيْبِ ۖ فَبَشِّرْهُ بِمَغْفِرَةٍ وَأَجْرٍ كَرِيمٍ Transliteration: Innamā tundhiru manittabaʿadh-dhikra wa khashiyar-raḥmāna bil-ghaybi fa-bashshirhu bimaghfiratin wa ajrin karīm. English: You can only warn one who follows the Reminder and fears the Most Merciful unseen. So give him good tidings of forgiveness and a noble reward.

Ayah 12 Arabic: إِنَّا نَحْنُ نُحْيِي الْمَوْتَىٰ وَنَكْتُبُ مَا قَدَّمُوا وَآثَارَهُمْ ۚ وَكُلَّ شَيْءٍ أَحْصَيْنَاهُ فِي إِمَامٍ مُّبِينٍ Transliteration: Innā naḥnu nuḥyil-mawtā wa naktubu mā qaddamū wa āthārahum wa kulla shay’in aḥṣaynāhu fī imāmim-mubīn. English: Indeed, it is We who bring the dead to life and record what they have put forward and what they left behind. And all things We have enumerated in a clear register.

Ayah 13 Arabic: وَاضْرِبْ لَهُم مَّثَلًا أَصْحَابَ الْقَرْيَةِ إِذْ جَاءَهَا الْمُرْسَلُونَ Transliteration: Waḍrib lahum mathalan aṣḥābal-qaryati idh jā’ahal-mursalūn. English: And present to them an example: the people of the city, when the messengers came to it.

Ayah 14 Arabic: إِذْ أَرْسَلْنَا إِلَيْهِمُ اثْنَيْنِ فَكَذَّبُوهُمَا فَعَزَّزْنَا بِثَالِثٍ فَقَالُوا إِنَّا إِلَيْكُم مُّرْسَلُونَ Transliteration: Idh arsalnā ilayhimuthnayni fa kadhdhabūhumā fa ʿazzaznā bithālithin fa qālū innā ilaykum mursalūn. English: When We sent to them two but they denied them, so We strengthened them with a third, and they said, “Indeed, we are messengers to you.”

Ayah 15 Arabic: قَالُوا مَا أَنتُمْ إِلَّا بَشَرٌ مِّثْلُنَا وَمَا أَنزَلَ الرَّحْمَٰنُ مِن شَيْءٍ إِنْ أَنتُمْ إِلَّا تَكْذِبُونَ Transliteration: Qālū mā antum illā basharum mithlunā wa mā anzalar-raḥmānu min shay’in in antum illā takdhibūn. English: They said, “You are not but human beings like us, and the Most Merciful has not sent down anything. You are only telling lies.”

Ayah 16 Arabic: قَالُوا رَبُّنَا يَعْلَمُ إِنَّا إِلَيْكُمْ لَمُرْسَلُونَ Transliteration: Qālū rabbunā yaʿlamu innā ilaykum lamursalūn. English: They said, “Our Lord knows that we are messengers to you.”

Ayah 17 Arabic: وَمَا عَلَيْنَا إِلَّا الْبَلَاغُ الْمُبِينُ Transliteration: Wa mā ʿalaynā illal-balāghul-mubīn. English: And we are responsible only for clear notification.

Ayah 18 Arabic: قَالُوا إِنَّا تَطَيَّرْنَا بِكُمْ ۖ لَئِن لَّمْ تَنتَهُوا لَنَرْجُمَنَّكُمْ وَلَيَمَسَّنَّكُم مِّنَّا عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ Transliteration: Qālū innā taṭayyarnā bikum la-in lam tantahū lanarjumannakum wa layamassannakum minnā ʿadhābun alīm. English: They said, “Indeed, we consider you a bad omen. If you do not desist, we will surely stone you, and you will surely receive from us a painful punishment.”

Ayah 19 Arabic: قَالُوا طَائِرُكُم مَّعَكُمْ ۖ أَئِن ذُكِّرْتُم ۖ بَلْ أَنتُمْ قَوْمٌ مُّسْرِفُونَ Transliteration: Qālū ṭā’irukum maʿakum a-in dhukkirtum bal antum qawmum musrifūn. English: They said, “Your omen is with yourselves. Is it because you were reminded? Rather, you are a transgressing people.”

Ayah 20 Arabic: وَجَاءَ مِنْ أَقْصَى الْمَدِينَةِ رَجُلٌ يَسْعَىٰ قَالَ يَا قَوْمِ اتَّبِعُوا الْمُرْسَلِينَ Transliteration: Wa jā’a min aqṣal-madīnati rajulun yasʿā qāla yā qawmit-tabiʿul-mursalīn. English: And there came a man, running, from the farthest end of the city. He said, “O my people, follow the messengers.”

Ayah 21 Arabic: اتَّبِعُوا مَن لَّا يَسْأَلُكُمْ أَجْرًا وَهُم مُّهْتَدُونَ Transliteration: Ittabiʿū man lā yas’alukum ajran wa hum muhtadūn. English: Follow those who ask of you no payment, and they are [rightly] guided.

Ayah 22 Arabic: وَمَا لِيَ لَا أَعْبُدُ الَّذِي فَطَرَنِي وَإِلَيْهِ تُرْجَعُونَ Transliteration: Wa mā liya lā aʿbudul-ladhī faṭaranī wa ilayhi turjaʿūn. English: And why should I not worship He who created me and to whom you will be returned?

Ayah 23 Arabic: أَأَتَّخِذُ مِن دُونِهِ آلِهَةً إِن يُرِدْنِ الرَّحْمَٰنُ بِضُرٍّ لَّا تُغْنِ عَنِّي شَفَاعَتُهُمْ شَيْئًا وَلَا يُنقِذُونِ Transliteration: A-attakhidhu min dūnihi ālihatan in yuridnir-raḥmānu biḍurrin lā tughni ʿannī shafāʿatuhum shay’an wa lā yunqidhūn. English: Should I take besides Him [other] gods? If the Most Merciful should intend for me any harm, their intercession will not avail me at all, nor can they save me.

Ayah 24 Arabic: إِنِّي إِذًا لَّفِي ضَلَالٍ مُّبِينٍ Transliteration: Innī idhan lafī ḍalālim-mubīn. English: Indeed, I would then be in manifest error.

Ayah 25 Arabic: إِنِّي آمَنتُ بِرَبِّكُمْ فَاسْمَعُونِ Transliteration: Innī āmantu birabbikum fasmaʿūn. English: Indeed, I have believed in your Lord, so listen to me.

Ayah 26 Arabic: قِيلَ ادْخُلِ الْجَنَّةَ ۖ قَالَ يَا لَيْتَ قَوْمِي يَعْلَمُونَ Transliteration: Qīladkhulil-jannata qāla yā layta qawmī yaʿlamūn. English: It was said, “Enter Paradise.” He said, “I wish my people knew.”

Ayah 27 Arabic: بِمَا غَفَرَ لِي رَبِّي وَجَعَلَنِي مِنَ الْمُكْرَمِينَ Transliteration: Bimā ghafara lī rabbī wa jaʿalanī minal-mukramīn. English: Of how my Lord has forgiven me and placed me among the honored.

Ayah 28 Arabic: وَمَا أَنزَلْنَا عَلَىٰ قَوْمِهِ مِن بَعْدِهِ مِن جُندٍ مِّنَ السَّمَاءِ وَمَا كُنَّا مُنزِلِينَ Transliteration: Wa mā anzalnā ʿalā qawmihi mim baʿdihi min jundin minas-samā’i wa mā kunnā munzilīn. English: And We did not send down upon his people after him any soldiers from the heaven, nor would We have done so.

Ayah 29 Arabic: إِن كَانَتْ إِلَّا صَيْحَةً وَاحِدَةً فَإِذَا هُمْ خَامِدُونَ Transliteration: In kānat illā ṣayḥatan wāḥidatan fa-idhā hum khāmidūn. English: It was not but one shout, and immediately they were extinguished.

Ayah 30 Arabic: يَا حَسْرَةً عَلَى الْعِبَادِ ۚ مَا يَأْتِيهِم مِّن رَّسُولٍ إِلَّا كَانُوا بِهِ يَسْتَهْزِئُونَ Transliteration: Yā ḥasratan ʿalal-ʿibādi mā ya’tīhim min rasūlin illā kānū bihi yastahzi’ūn. English: How regretful for the servants! There did not come to them any messenger except that they ridiculed him.

Ayah 31 Arabic: أَلَمْ يَرَوْا كَمْ أَهْلَكْنَا قَبْلَهُم مِّنَ الْقُرُونِ أَنَّهُمْ إِلَيْهِمْ لَا يَرْجِعُونَ Transliteration: Alam yaraw kam ahlaknā qablahum minal-qurūni annahum ilayhim lā yarjiʿūn. English: Have they not considered how many generations We destroyed before them? Indeed, they will not return to them.

Ayah 32 Arabic: وَإِن كُلٌّ لَّمَّا جَمِيعٌ لَّدَيْنَا مُحْضَرُونَ Transliteration: Wa in kullun lammā jamīʿun ladaynā muḥḍarūn. English: And indeed, all of them will be brought before Us.

Ayah 33 Arabic: وَآيَةٌ لَّهُمُ الْأَرْضُ الْمَيْتَةُ أَحْيَيْنَاهَا وَأَخْرَجْنَا مِنْهَا حَبًّا فَمِنْهُ يَأْكُلُونَ Transliteration: Wa āyatun lahumul-arḍul-mayyitah aḥyaynāhā wa akhrajnā minhā ḥabban faminhu ya’kulūn. English: And a sign for them is the dead earth. We have brought it to life and brought forth from it grain, and from it they eat.

Ayah 34 Arabic: وَجَعَلْنَا فِيهَا جَنَّاتٍ مِّن نَّخِيلٍ وَأَعْنَابٍ وَفَجَّرْنَا فِيهَا مِنَ الْعُيُونِ Transliteration: Wa jaʿalnā fīhā jannātin min nakhlīn wa aʿnābin wa fajjarnā fīhā minal-ʿuyūn. English: And We placed within it gardens of palm trees and grapevines and caused to burst forth from it springs.

Ayah 35 Arabic: لِيَأْكُلُوا مِن ثَمَرِهِ وَمَا عَمِلَتْهُ أَيْدِيهِمْ ۖ أَفَلَا يَشْكُرُونَ Transliteration: Liya’kulū min thamarīhi wa mā ʿamilathu aydīhim a-fa-lā yashkurūn. English: That they may eat of its fruit. And their hands have not produced it. So will they not be grateful?

Ayah 36 Arabic: سُبْحَانَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ الْأَزْوَاجَ كُلَّهَا مِمَّا تُنبِتُ الْأَرْضُ وَمِنْ أَنفُسِهِمْ وَمِمَّا لَا يَعْلَمُونَ Transliteration: Subḥānal-ladhī khalaqal-azwāja kullahā mimmā tunbitul-arḍu wa min anfusihim wa mimmā lā yaʿlamūn. English: Exalted is He who created all pairs — from what the earth grows and from themselves and from that which they do not know.

Ayah 37 Arabic: وَآيَةٌ لَّهُمُ اللَّيْلُ نَسْلَخُ مِنْهُ النَّهَارَ فَإِذَا هُم مُّظْلِمُونَ Transliteration: Wa āyatun lahumul-laylu naslakhu minhu an-nahāra fa-idhā hum muẓlimūn. English: And a sign for them is the night. We remove from it the day, and immediately they are in darkness.

Ayah 38 Arabic: وَالشَّمْسُ تَجْرِي لِمُسْتَقَرٍّ لَّهَا ۚ ذَٰلِكَ تَقْدِيرُ الْعَزِيزِ الْعَلِيمِ Transliteration: Wash-shamsu tajrī limustaqarrin lahā dhālika taqdīrul-ʿazīzil-ʿalīm. English: And the sun runs [on course] toward its stopping point. That is the determination of the Exalted in Might, the Knowing.

Ayah 39 Arabic: وَالْقَمَرَ قَدَّرْنَاهُ مَنَازِلَ حَتَّىٰ عَادَ كَالْعُرْجُونِ الْقَدِيمِ Transliteration: Wal-qamara qaddarnāhu manāzila ḥattā ʿāda kal-ʿurjūnil-qadīm. English: And the moon — We have determined for it phases, until it returns [appearing] like the old date stalk.

Ayah 40 Arabic: لَا الشَّمْسُ يَنبَغِي لَهَا أَن تُدْرِكَ الْقَمَرَ وَلَا اللَّيْلُ سَابِقُ النَّهَارِ ۚ وَكُلٌّ فِي فَلَكٍ يَسْبَحُونَ Transliteration: Lash-shamsu yanbaghī lahā an tudrikal-qamara wa lal-laylu sābiqun-nahār. Wa kullun fī falakin yasbaḥūn. English: It is not for the sun to overtake the moon, nor does the night overtake the day, but each, in an orbit, is swimming.

Ayah 41 Arabic: وَآيَةٌ لَّهُمْ أَنَّا حَمَلْنَا ذُرِّيَّتَهُمْ فِي الْفُلْكِ الْمَشْحُونِ Transliteration: Wa āyatun lahum annā ḥamalnā dhurriyyatahum fil-fulkil-mashḥūn. English: And a sign for them is that We carried their descendants in the laden ship.

Ayah 42 Arabic: وَخَلَقْنَا لَهُم مِّن مِّثْلِهِ مَا يَرْكَبُونَ Transliteration: Wa khalaqnā lahum mim mithlihi mā yarkabūn. English: And We created for them that which they ride.

Ayah 43 Arabic: وَإِن نَّشَأْ نُغْرِقْهُمْ فَلَا صَرِيخَ لَهُمْ وَلَا هُمْ يُنقَذُونَ Transliteration: Wa in nasha’ nughriqhum fa-lā ṣarīkha lahum wa lā hum yunqadhūn. English: And if We should will, We could drown them; then no cry for help would they have, nor would they be saved.

Ayah 44 Arabic: إِلَّا رَحْمَةً مِّنَّا وَمَتَاعًا إِلَىٰ حِينٍ Transliteration: Illā raḥmatan minnā wa matāʿan ilā ḥīn. English: Except as a mercy from Us and provision for a time.

Ayah 45 Arabic: وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمُ اتَّقُوا مَا بَيْنَ أَيْدِيكُمْ وَمَا خَلْفَكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُرْحَمُونَ Transliteration: Wa idhā qīla lahumuttaqū mā bayna aydīkum wa mā khalfakum laʿallakum turḥamūn. English: And when it is said to them, “Beware of what is before you and what is behind you; perhaps you will receive mercy.”

Ayah 46 Arabic: وَمَا تَأْتِيهِم مِّنْ آيَةٍ مِّنْ آيَاتِ رَبِّهِمْ إِلَّا كَانُوا عَنْهَا مُعْرِضِينَ Transliteration: Wa mā ta’tīhim min āyatin min āyāti rabbihim illā kānū ʿanhā muʿriḍīn. English: And no sign comes to them from the signs of their Lord except that they are turning away from it.

Ayah 47 Arabic: وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمْ أَنفِقُوا مِمَّا رَزَقَكُمُ اللَّهُ قَالَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا لِلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا أَنُطْعِمُ مَن لَّوْ يَشَاءُ اللَّهُ أَطْعَمَهُ إِنْ أَنتُمْ إِلَّا فِي ضَلَالٍ مُّبِينٍ Transliteration: Wa idhā qīla lahum anfiqū mimmā razaqakumullāhu qālal-ladhīna kafarū lilladhīna āmanū a-nuṭʿimu man law yashā’ullāhu aṭʿamahu in antum illā fī ḍalālim-mubīn. English: And when it is said to them, “Spend from that which Allah has provided for you,” those who disbelieve say to those who believe, “Should we feed one whom, if Allah had willed, He would have fed? You are not but in clear error.”

Ayah 48 Arabic: وَيَقُولُونَ مَتَىٰ هَٰذَا الْوَعْدُ إِن كُنتُمْ صَادِقِينَ Transliteration: Wa yaqūlūna matā hādhal-waʿdu in kuntum ṣādiqīn. English: And they say, “When is this promise, if you should be truthful?”

Ayah 49 Arabic: مَا يَنظُرُونَ إِلَّا صَيْحَةً وَاحِدَةً تَأْخُذُهُمْ وَهُمْ يَخِصِّمُونَ Transliteration: Mā yanẓurūna illā ṣayḥatan wāḥidatan ta’khuduhum wa hum yakhiṣṣimūn. English: They do not await except one blast, which will seize them while they are disputing.

Ayah 50 Arabic: فَلَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ تَوْصِيَةً وَلَا إِلَىٰ أَهْلِهِمْ يَرْجِعُونَ Transliteration: Fa-lā yastaṭīʿūna tawṣiyatan wa lā ilā ahlihim yarjiʿūn. English: And they will not be able to make a will, nor will they return to their families.

Ayah 51 Arabic: وَنُفِخَ فِي الصُّورِ فَإِذَا هُم مِّنَ الْأَجْدَاثِ إِلَىٰ رَبِّهِمْ يَنسِلُونَ Transliteration: Wa nufikha fiṣ-ṣūri fa-idhā hum minal-ajdāthi ilā rabbihim yansilūn. English: And the Horn will be blown; and at once from the graves to their Lord they will hasten.

Ayah 52 Arabic: قَالُوا يَا وَيْلَنَا مَن بَعَثَنَا مِن مَّرْقَدِنَا ۜ ۗ هَٰذَا مَا وَعَدَ الرَّحْمَٰنُ وَصَدَقَ الْمُرْسَلُونَ Transliteration: Qālū yā waylanā man baʿathanā mim marqadinā hādhā mā waʿadar-raḥmānu wa ṣadaqal-mursalūn. English: They will say, “O woe to us! Who has raised us up from our sleeping place?” [They will be told], “This is what the Most Merciful had promised, and the messengers told the truth.”

Ayah 53 Arabic: إِن كَانَتْ إِلَّا صَيْحَةً وَاحِدَةً فَإِذَا هُمْ جَمِيعٌ لَّدَيْنَا مُحْضَرُونَ Transliteration: In kānat illā ṣayḥatan wāḥidatan fa-idhā hum jamīʿun ladaynā muḥḍarūn. English: It will not be but one blast, and at once they will all be brought before Us.

Ayah 54 Arabic: فَالْيَوْمَ لَا تُظْلَمُ نَفْسٌ شَيْئًا وَلَا تُجْزَوْنَ إِلَّا مَا كُنتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ Transliteration: Fal-yawma lā tuẓlamu nafsun shay’an wa lā tujzawna illā mā kuntum taʿmalūn. English: So today no soul will be wronged in the least, and you will only be recompensed for what you used to do.

Ayah 55 Arabic: إِنَّ أَصْحَابَ الْجَنَّةِ الْيَوْمَ فِي شُغُلٍ فَاكِهُونَ Transliteration: Inna aṣḥābal-jannati al-yawma fī shughulin fākihūn. English: Indeed, the companions of Paradise that Day will be occupied in rejoicing.

Ayah 56 Arabic: هُمْ وَأَزْوَاجُهُمْ فِي ظِلَالٍ عَلَى الْأَرَائِكِ مُتَّكِئُونَ Transliteration: Hum wa azwājuhum fī ẓilālin ʿalal-arā’iki muttaki’ūn. English: They and their spouses — in shade, reclining on adorned couches.

Ayah 57 Arabic: لَهُمْ فِيهَا فَاكِهَةٌ وَلَهُم مَّا يَدَّعُونَ Transliteration: Lahum fīhā fākihatun wa lahum mā yaddaʿūn. English: For them therein is fruit, and for them is whatever they request.

Ayah 58 Arabic: سَلَامٌ قَوْلًا مِّن رَّبٍّ رَّحِيمٍ Transliteration: Salāmun qawlan mir-rabbir-raḥīm. English: [They will be told], “Peace,” a word from a Merciful Lord.

Ayah 59 Arabic: وَامْتَازُوا الْيَوْمَ أَيُّهَا الْمُجْرِمُونَ Transliteration: Wam-tāzūl-yawma ayyuhal-mujrimūn. English: [Then He will say], “But stand apart today, you criminals.”

Ayah 60 Arabic: أَلَمْ أَعْهَدْ إِلَيْكُمْ يَا بَنِي آدَمَ أَن لَّا تَعْبُدُوا الشَّيْطَانَ ۖ إِنَّهُ لَكُمْ عَدُوٌّ مُّبِينٌ Transliteration: Alam aʿhad ilaykum yā banī ādama an lā taʿbudush-shayṭāna innahu lakum ʿaduwwum-mubīn. English: Did I not enjoin upon you, O children of Adam, that you not worship Satan — [for] indeed, he is to you a clear enemy.

Ayah 61 Arabic: وَأَنِ اعْبُدُونِي ۚ هَٰذَا صِرَاطٌ مُّسْتَقِيمٌ Transliteration: Wa aniʿbudūnī hādhā ṣirāṭum-mustaqīm. English: And that you worship [only] Me? This is a straight path.

Ayah 62 Arabic: وَلَقَدْ أَضَلَّ مِنكُمْ جِبِلًّا كَثِيرًا ۖ أَفَلَمْ تَكُونُوا تَعْقِلُونَ Transliteration: Wa laqad aḍalla minkum jibillan kathīran a-fa-lam takūnū taʿqilūn. English: And he had already led astray from among you many hosts. Then did you not use reason?

Ayah 63 Arabic: هَٰذِهِ جَهَنَّمُ الَّتِي كُنتُمْ تُوعَدُونَ Transliteration: Hādhihi jahannamul-latī kuntum tūʿadūn. English: This is the Hellfire which you were promised.

Ayah 64 Arabic: اصْلَوْهَا الْيَوْمَ بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَكْفُرُونَ Transliteration: Iṣlawhal-yawma bimā kuntum takfurūn. English: Burn in it today because you used to disbelieve.

Ayah 65 Arabic: الْيَوْمَ نَخْتِمُ عَلَىٰ أَفْوَاهِهِمْ وَتُكَلِّمُنَا أَيْدِيهِمْ وَتَشْهَدُ أَرْجُلُهُم بِمَا كَانُوا يَكْسِبُونَ Transliteration: Al-yawma nakhtimu ʿalā afwāhihim wa tukallimunā aydīhim wa tashhadu arjuluhum bimā kānū yaksibūn. English: That Day, We will seal upon their mouths, and their hands will speak to Us, and their feet will testify about what they used to earn.

Ayah 66 Arabic: وَلَوْ نَشَاءُ لَطَمَسْنَا عَلَىٰ أَعْيُنِهِمْ فَاسْتَبَقُوا الصِّرَاطَ فَأَنَّىٰ يُبْصِرُونَ Transliteration: Wa law nashā’u laṭamasnā ʿalā aʿyuniḥim fastabaquṣ-ṣirāṭa fa-annā yubṣirūn. English: And if We willed, We could have obliterated their eyes. So they would race to find the path, but how could they see?

Ayah 67 Arabic: وَلَوْ نَشَاءُ لَمَسَخْنَاهُمْ عَلَىٰ مَكَانَتِهِمْ فَمَا اسْتَطَاعُوا مُضِيًّا وَلَا يَرْجِعُونَ Transliteration: Wa law nashā’u lamasakhnāhum ʿalā makānatihim famā istaṭāʿū muḍiyyan wa lā yarjiʿūn. English: And if We willed, We could have deformed them in their places so they would not be able to proceed or return.

Ayah 68 Arabic: وَمَن نُّعَمِّرْهُ نُنَكِّسْهُ فِي الْخَلْقِ ۖ أَفَلَا يَعْقِلُونَ Transliteration: Wa man nuʿammirhu nunakkis-hu fil-khalqi a-fa-lā yaʿqilūn. English: And he to whom We grant long life We reverse in creation; then will they not understand?

Ayah 69 Arabic: وَمَا عَلَّمْنَاهُ الشِّعْرَ وَمَا يَنبَغِي لَهُ ۚ إِنْ هُوَ إِلَّا ذِكْرٌ وَقُرْآنٌ مُّبِينٌ Transliteration: Wa mā ʿallamnāhu ash-shiʿra wa mā yanbaghī lahū in huwa illā dhikrun wa Qur’ānun mubīn. English: And We have not taught him poetry, nor is it befitting for him. It is not but a reminder and a clear Qur’an.

Ayah 70 Arabic: لِّيُنذِرَ مَن كَانَ حَيًّا وَيَحِقَّ الْقَوْلُ عَلَى الْكَافِرِينَ Transliteration: Li-yundhira man kāna ḥayyan wa yaḥiqqa al-qawlu ʿalal-kāfirīn. English: To warn whoever is living and to justify the word against the disbelievers.

Ayah 71 Arabic: أَوَلَمْ يَرَوْا أَنَّا خَلَقْنَا لَهُم مِّمَّا عَمِلَتْ أَيْدِينَا أَنْعَامًا فَهُمْ لَهَا مَالِكُونَ Transliteration: Awa-lam yaraw annā khalaqnā lahum mimmā ʿamilat aydīnā anʿāman fa-hum lahā mālikūn. English: Have they not seen that We have created for them, from what Our hands have made, livestock which they control?

Ayah 72 Arabic: وَذَلَّلْنَاهَا لَهُمْ فَمِنْهَا رَكُوبُهُمْ وَمِنْهَا يَأْكُلُونَ Transliteration: Wa dhallalnāhā lahum fa-minhā rakūbuhum wa minhā ya’kulūn. English: And We have tamed them for them, so some of them they ride, and some they eat.

Ayah 73 Arabic: وَلَهُمْ فِيهَا مَنَافِعُ وَمَشَارِبُ ۖ أَفَلَا يَشْكُرُونَ Transliteration: Wa lahum fīhā manāfiʿu wa mashārib. A-fa-lā yashkurūn. English: And for them therein are [other] benefits and drinks. Then will they not be grateful?

Ayah 74 Arabic: وَاتَّخَذُوا مِن دُونِ اللَّهِ آلِهَةً لَّعَلَّهُمْ يُنصَرُونَ Transliteration: Wattakhadhū min dūnillāhi ālihatan laʿallahum yunṣarūn. English: But they have taken besides Allah [other] gods that perhaps they would be helped.

Ayah 75 Arabic: لَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ نَصْرَهُمْ وَهُمْ لَهُمْ جُندٌ مُّحْضَرُونَ Transliteration: Lā yastaṭīʿūna naṣrahum wa hum lahum jundum muḥḍarūn. English: They are not able to help them, and they [themselves] are soldiers in attendance for them.

Ayah 76 Arabic: فَلَا يَحْزُنكَ قَوْلُهُمْ ۘ إِنَّا نَعْلَمُ مَا يُسِرُّونَ وَمَا يُعْلِنُونَ Transliteration: Fa-lā yaḥzunka qawluhum innā naʿlamu mā yusirrūna wa mā yuʿlinūn. English: So let not their speech grieve you. Indeed, We know what they conceal and what they declare.

Ayah 77 Arabic: أَوَلَمْ يَرَ الْإِنسَانُ أَنَّا خَلَقْنَاهُ مِن نُّطْفَةٍ فَإِذَا هُوَ خَصِيمٌ مُّبِينٌ Transliteration: Awa-lam yaral-insānu annā khalaqnāhu min nuṭfatin fa-idhā huwa khaṣīmun mubīn. English: Does man not consider that We created him from a [mere] sperm-drop — then at once he is an open disputant?

Ayah 78 Arabic: وَضَرَبَ لَنَا مَثَلًا وَنَسِيَ خَلْقَهُ ۖ قَالَ مَن يُحْيِي الْعِظَامَ وَهِيَ رَمِيمٌ Transliteration: Wa ḍaraba lanā mathalan wa nasiya khalqahu qāla man yuḥyil-ʿiẓāma wa hiya ramīm. English: And he presents for Us an example and forgets his [own] creation. He says, “Who will give life to bones while they are disintegrated?”

Ayah 79 Arabic: قُلْ يُحْيِيهَا الَّذِي أَنشَأَهَا أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ ۖ وَهُوَ بِكُلِّ خَلْقٍ عَلِيمٌ Transliteration: Qul yuḥyīhal-ladhī ansha’ahā awwala marratin wa huwa bikulli khalqin ʿalīm. English: Say, “He will give them life who created them the first time, and He is, of all creation, Knowing.”

Ayah 80 Arabic: الَّذِي جَعَلَ لَكُم مِّنَ الشَّجَرِ الْأَخْضَرِ نَارًا فَإِذَا أَنتُم مِّنْهُ تُوقِدُونَ Transliteration: Alladhī jaʿala lakum minash-shajaril-akhḍari nāran fa-idhā antum minhu tūqidūn. English: [It is] He who made for you fire from the green tree, and then from it you ignite.

Ayah 81 Arabic: أَوَلَيْسَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ بِقَادِرٍ عَلَىٰ أَن يَخْلُقَ مِثْلَهُم ۚ بَلَىٰ وَهُوَ الْخَلَّاقُ الْعَلِيمُ Transliteration: Awa-laysal-ladhī khalaqas-samāwāti wal-arḍa bi-qādirin ʿalā an yakhluqa mithlahum balā wa huwal-khallāqul-ʿalīm. English: Is not He who created the heavens and the earth Able to create the likes of them? Yes, and He is the Knowing Creator.

Ayah 82 Arabic: إِنَّمَا أَمْرُهُ إِذَا أَرَادَ شَيْئًا أَن يَقُولَ لَهُ كُن فَيَكُونُ Transliteration: Innamā amruhu idhā arāda shay’an an yaqūla lahu kun fa-yakūn. English: His command is only when He intends a thing that He says to it, “Be,” and it is.

Ayah 83 Arabic: فَسُبْحَانَ الَّذِي بِيَدِهِ مَلَكُوتُ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ وَإِلَيْهِ تُرْجَعُونَ Transliteration: Fa-subḥānal-ladhī biyadihi malakūtu kulli shay’in wa ilayhi turjaʿūn. English: So exalted is He in whose hand is the dominion of all things, and to Him you will be returned.

History and Background of Surah Yasen

Surah Yaseen was revealed in Makkah at a time when the Quraysh were fiercely opposing the Prophet ﷺ. The main purpose of this Surah was to strengthen the faith of the believers and to warn the disbelievers about the reality of the Hereafter.

According to authentic narrations, the Prophet ﷺ said: “Everything has a heart, and the heart of the Quran is Surah Yaseen.” (Sunan Tirmidhi)

This Surah is often called the “Heart of the Quran” because it beautifully summarizes the core message of the entire Quran — Tawhid, Risalah (prophethood), and Ma’ad (the Hereafter). It was revealed when the Prophet ﷺ was facing extreme difficulties, and it gave him and his companions great comfort and strength.