الأعـلى

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

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

2 Who created and proportioned

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

3 And who destined and [then] guided

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).

4 And who brings out the pasture

4 And Who brings out the pasturage,

5 And [then] makes it black stubble.

5 And then makes it dark stubble.

6 We will make you recite, [O Muhammad], and you will not forget,

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

7 Except what Allah should will. Indeed, He knows what is declared and what is hidden.

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

8 And We will ease you toward ease.

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

9 So remind, if the reminder should benefit;

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

10 He who fears [Allah] will be reminded.

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

11 But the wretched one will avoid it -

11 But it will be avoided by the wretched,

12 [He] who will [enter and] burn in the greatest Fire,

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

13 Neither dying therein nor living.

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

14 He has certainly succeeded who purifies himself

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

15 And mentions the name of his Lord and prays.

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

16 But you prefer the worldly life,

16 Nay, you prefer the life of this world,

17 While the Hereafter is better and more enduring.

17 Although the Hereafter is better and more lasting.

18 Indeed, this is in the former scriptures,

18 Verily, this is in the former Scriptures -

19 The scriptures of Abraham and Moses.

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