Al A'la

Shakir

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

Transliteration

1 Sabbihi isma rabbika alaAAla

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Shakir

2 Who creates, then makes complete,

Transliteration

2 Allathee khalaqa fasawwa

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Shakir

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

Transliteration

3 Waallathee qaddara fahada

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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).

Shakir

4 And Who brings forth herbage,

Transliteration

4 Waallathee akhraja almarAAa

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

4 And Who brings out the pasturage,

Shakir

5 Then makes it dried up, dust - colored.

Transliteration

5 FajaAAalahu ghuthaan ahwa

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

5 And then makes it dark stubble.

Shakir

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

Transliteration

6 Sanuqrioka fala tansa

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Shakir

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

Transliteration

7 Illa ma shaa Allahu innahu yaAAlamu aljahra wama yakhfa

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Shakir

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

Transliteration

8 Wanuyassiruka lilyusra

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Shakir

9 Therefore do remind, surely reminding does profit.

Transliteration

9 Fathakkir in nafaAAati alththikra

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Shakir

10 He who fears will mind,

Transliteration

10 Sayaththakkaru man yakhsha

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Shakir

11 And the most unfortunate one will avoid it,

Transliteration

11 Wayatajannabuha alashqa

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

11 But it will be avoided by the wretched,

Shakir

12 Who shall enter the great fire;

Transliteration

12 Allathee yasla alnnara alkubra

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Shakir

13 Then therein he shall neither live nor die.

Transliteration

13 Thumma la yamootu feeha wala yahya

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Shakir

14 He indeed shall be successful who purifies himself,

Transliteration

14 Qad aflaha man tazakka

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Shakir

15 And magnifies the name of his Lord and prays.

Transliteration

15 Wathakara isma rabbihi fasalla

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Shakir

16 Nay! you prefer the life of this world,

Transliteration

16 Bal tuthiroona alhayata alddunya

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

16 Nay, you prefer the life of this world,

Shakir

17 While the hereafter is better and more lasting.

Transliteration

17 Waalakhiratu khayrun waabqa

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

17 Although the Hereafter is better and more lasting.

Shakir

18 Most surely this is in the earlier scriptures,

Transliteration

18 Inna hatha lafee alssuhufi aloola

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

18 Verily, this is in the former Scriptures -

Shakir

19 The scriptures of Ibrahim and Musa.

Transliteration

19 Suhufi ibraheema wamoosa

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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