Chapter 87, 19 verses
Glorify the name of your Lord, the Most High,
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم سبح اسم ربك الأعلى
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. Praise the name of thy Lord the Most High,
Who creates, then makes complete,
الذي خلق فسوى
Who createth, then disposeth;
And Who makes (things) according to a measure, then guides (them to their goal),
والذي قدر فهدى
Who measureth, then guideth;
And Who brings forth herbage,
والذي أخرج المرعى
Who bringeth forth the pasturage,
Then makes it dried up, dust - colored.
فجعله غثاء أحوى
Then turneth it to russet stubble.
We will make you recite so you shall not forget,
سنقرئك فلا تنسى
We shall make thee read (O Muhammad) so that thou shalt not forget
Except what Allah pleases, surely He knows the manifest, and what is hidden.
إلا ما شاء الله ۚ إنه يعلم الجهر وما يخفى
Save that which Allah willeth. Lo! He knoweth the disclosed and that which still is hidden;
And We will make your way smooth to a state of ease.
ونيسرك لليسرى
And We shall ease thy way unto the state of ease.
Therefore do remind, surely reminding does profit.
فذكر إن نفعت الذكرى
Therefor remind (men), for of use is the reminder.
He who fears will mind,
سيذكر من يخشى
He will heed who feareth,
And the most unfortunate one will avoid it,
ويتجنبها الأشقى
But the most hapless will flout it,
Who shall enter the great fire;
الذي يصلى النار الكبرى
He who will be flung to the great Fire
Then therein he shall neither live nor die.
ثم لا يموت فيها ولا يحيى
Wherein he will neither die nor live.
He indeed shall be who purifies himself,
قد أفلح من تزكى
He is who groweth,
And magnifies the name of his Lord and prays.
وذكر اسم ربه فصلى
And remembereth the name of his Lord, so prayeth,
Nay! you prefer the life of this world,
بل تؤثرون الحياة الدنيا
But ye prefer the life of the world
While the hereafter is better and more lasting.
والآخرة خير وأبقى
Although the Hereafter is better and more lasting.
Most surely this is in the earlier scriptures,
إن هذا لفي الصحف الأولى
Lo! This is in the former scrolls.
The scriptures of Ibrahim and Musa.
صحف إبراهيم وموسى
The Books of Abraham and Moses.