Al A'la

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

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

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2 Who creates, then makes complete,

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

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

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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).

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4 And Who brings forth herbage,

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4 And Who brings out the pasturage,

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5 Then makes it dried up, dust - colored.

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5 And then makes it dark stubble.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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9 Therefore do remind, surely reminding does profit.

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

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10 He who fears will mind,

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

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11 And the most unfortunate one will avoid it,

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11 But it will be avoided by the wretched,

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12 Who shall enter the great fire;

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

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13 Then therein he shall neither live nor die.

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

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14 He indeed shall be successful who purifies himself,

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

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15 And magnifies the name of his Lord and prays.

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

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16 Nay! you prefer the life of this world,

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16 Nay, you prefer the life of this world,

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17 While the hereafter is better and more lasting.

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17 Although the Hereafter is better and more lasting.

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18 Most surely this is in the earlier scriptures,

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18 Verily, this is in the former Scriptures -

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19 The scriptures of Ibrahim and Musa.

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