Chapter 87, 19 verses
Glorify the name of your Lord, the Most High,
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Glorify the Name of your Lord, the Most High,
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم سبح اسم ربك الأعلى
Who creates, then makes complete,
Who has created (everything), and then proportioned it.
الذي خلق فسوى
And Who makes (things) according to a measure, then guides (them to their goal),
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).
والذي قدر فهدى
And Who brings forth herbage,
And Who brings out the pasturage,
والذي أخرج المرعى
Then makes it dried up, dust - colored.
And then makes it dark stubble.
فجعله غثاء أحوى
We will make you recite so you shall not forget,
We shall make you to recite (the Qur'an), so you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) shall not forget (it),
سنقرئك فلا تنسى
Except what Allah pleases, surely He knows the manifest, and what is hidden.
Except what Allah may will. He knows what is apparent and what is hidden.
إلا ما شاء الله ۚ إنه يعلم الجهر وما يخفى
And We will make your way smooth to a state of ease.
And We shall make easy for you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) the easy way (i.e. the doing of righteous deeds).
ونيسرك لليسرى
Therefore do remind, surely reminding does profit.
Therefore remind (men) in case the reminder profits (them).
فذكر إن نفعت الذكرى
He who fears will mind,
The reminder will be received by him who fears (Allah),
سيذكر من يخشى
And the most unfortunate one will avoid it,
But it will be avoided by the wretched,
ويتجنبها الأشقى
Who shall enter the great fire;
Who will enter the great Fire (and will be made to taste its burning).
الذي يصلى النار الكبرى
Then therein he shall neither live nor die.
There he will neither die (to be in rest) nor live (a good living).
ثم لا يموت فيها ولا يحيى
He indeed shall be who purifies himself,
Indeed whosoever purifies himself (by avoiding polytheism and accepting Islamic Monotheism) shall achieve success,
قد أفلح من تزكى
And magnifies the name of his Lord and prays.
And remembers (glorifies) the Name of his Lord (worships none but Allah), and prays (five compulsory prayers and Nawafil - additional prayers).
وذكر اسم ربه فصلى
Nay! you prefer the life of this world,
Nay, you prefer the life of this world,
بل تؤثرون الحياة الدنيا
While the hereafter is better and more lasting.
Although the Hereafter is better and more lasting.
والآخرة خير وأبقى
Most surely this is in the earlier scriptures,
Verily, this is in the former Scriptures -
إن هذا لفي الصحف الأولى
The scriptures of Ibrahim and Musa.
The Scriptures of Ibrahim (Abraham) and Musa (Moses) (عليهما السلام).
صحف إبراهيم وموسى