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1 In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Glorify the Name of your Lord, the Most High,

1 Sabbihi isma rabbika alaAAla

1 Glorify the name of your Lord, the Most High,

2 Who has created (everything), and then proportioned it.

2 Allathee khalaqa fasawwa

2 Who creates, then makes complete,

3 And Who has measured (preordainments for everything even to be blessed or wretched); and then guided (i.e. showed mankind the right as well as the wrong paths, and guided the animals to pasture).

3 Waallathee qaddara fahada

3 And Who makes (things) according to a measure, then guides (them to their goal),

4 And Who brings out the pasturage,

4 Waallathee akhraja almarAAa

4 And Who brings forth herbage,

5 And then makes it dark stubble.

5 FajaAAalahu ghuthaan ahwa

5 Then makes it dried up, dust - colored.

6 We shall make you to recite (the Qur'an), so you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) shall not forget (it),

6 Sanuqrioka fala tansa

6 We will make you recite so you shall not forget,

7 Except what Allah may will. He knows what is apparent and what is hidden.

7 Illa ma shaa Allahu innahu yaAAlamu aljahra wama yakhfa

7 Except what Allah pleases, surely He knows the manifest, and what is hidden.

8 And We shall make easy for you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) the easy way (i.e. the doing of righteous deeds).

8 Wanuyassiruka lilyusra

8 And We will make your way smooth to a state of ease.

9 Therefore remind (men) in case the reminder profits (them).

9 Fathakkir in nafaAAati alththikra

9 Therefore do remind, surely reminding does profit.

10 The reminder will be received by him who fears (Allah),

10 Sayaththakkaru man yakhsha

10 He who fears will mind,

11 But it will be avoided by the wretched,

11 Wayatajannabuha alashqa

11 And the most unfortunate one will avoid it,

12 Who will enter the great Fire (and will be made to taste its burning).

12 Allathee yasla alnnara alkubra

12 Who shall enter the great fire;

13 There he will neither die (to be in rest) nor live (a good living).

13 Thumma la yamootu feeha wala yahya

13 Then therein he shall neither live nor die.

14 Indeed whosoever purifies himself (by avoiding polytheism and accepting Islamic Monotheism) shall achieve success,

14 Qad aflaha man tazakka

14 He indeed shall be successful who purifies himself,

15 And remembers (glorifies) the Name of his Lord (worships none but Allah), and prays (five compulsory prayers and Nawafil - additional prayers).

15 Wathakara isma rabbihi fasalla

15 And magnifies the name of his Lord and prays.

16 Nay, you prefer the life of this world,

16 Bal tuthiroona alhayata alddunya

16 Nay! you prefer the life of this world,

17 Although the Hereafter is better and more lasting.

17 Waalakhiratu khayrun waabqa

17 While the hereafter is better and more lasting.

18 Verily, this is in the former Scriptures -

18 Inna hatha lafee alssuhufi aloola

18 Most surely this is in the earlier scriptures,

19 The Scriptures of Ibrahim (Abraham) and Musa (Moses) (عليهما السلام).

19 Suhufi ibraheema wamoosa

19 The scriptures of Ibrahim and Musa.