Chapter 87, 19 verses
Glorify the name of your Lord, the Most High,
Sabbihi isma rabbika alaAAla
Exalt the name of your Lord, the Most High,
Glorify the name of thy Guardian - Lord Most High,
Who creates, then makes complete,
Allathee khalaqa fasawwa
Who created and proportioned
Who hath created, and further, given order and proportion;
And Who makes (things) according to a measure, then guides (them to their goal),
Waallathee qaddara fahada
And who destined and [then] guided
Who hath ordained laws. And granted guidance;
And Who brings forth herbage,
Waallathee akhraja almarAAa
And who brings out the pasture
And Who bringeth out the (green and luscious) pasture,
Then makes it dried up, dust - colored.
FajaAAalahu ghuthaan ahwa
And [then] makes it black stubble.
And then doth make it (but) swarthy stubble.
We will make you recite so you shall not forget,
Sanuqrioka fala tansa
We will make you recite, [O Muhammad], and you will not forget,
By degrees shall We teach thee to declare (the Message), so thou shalt not forget,
Except what Allah pleases, surely He knows the manifest, and what is hidden.
Illa ma shaa Allahu innahu yaAAlamu aljahra wama yakhfa
Except what Allah should will. Indeed, He knows what is declared and what is hidden.
Except as Allah wills: For He knoweth what is manifest and what is hidden.
And We will make your way smooth to a state of ease.
Wanuyassiruka lilyusra
And We will ease you toward ease.
And We will make it easy for thee (to follow) the simple (Path).
Therefore do remind, surely reminding does profit.
Fathakkir in nafaAAati alththikra
So remind, if the reminder should benefit;
Therefore give admonition in case the admonition profits (the hearer).
He who fears will mind,
Sayaththakkaru man yakhsha
He who fears [Allah] will be reminded.
The admonition will be received by those who fear (Allah):
And the most unfortunate one will avoid it,
Wayatajannabuha alashqa
But the wretched one will avoid it -
But it will be avoided by those most unfortunate ones,
Who shall enter the great fire;
Allathee yasla alnnara alkubra
[He] who will [enter and] burn in the greatest Fire,
Who will enter the Great Fire,
Then therein he shall neither live nor die.
Thumma la yamootu feeha wala yahya
Neither dying therein nor living.
In which they will then neither die nor live.
He indeed shall be who purifies himself,
Qad aflaha man tazakka
He has certainly succeeded who purifies himself
But those will prosper who purify themselves,
And magnifies the name of his Lord and prays.
Wathakara isma rabbihi fasalla
And mentions the name of his Lord and prays.
And glorify the name of their Guardian - Lord, and (lift their hearts) in prayer.
Nay! you prefer the life of this world,
Bal tuthiroona alhayata alddunya
But you prefer the worldly life,
Nay (behold), ye prefer the life of this world;
While the hereafter is better and more lasting.
Waalakhiratu khayrun waabqa
While the Hereafter is better and more enduring.
But the Hereafter is better and more enduring.
Most surely this is in the earlier scriptures,
Inna hatha lafee alssuhufi aloola
Indeed, this is in the former scriptures,
And this is in the Books of the earliest (Revelation), -
The scriptures of Ibrahim and Musa.
Suhufi ibraheema wamoosa
The scriptures of Abraham and Moses.
The Books of Abraham and Moses.