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Glorify the name of your Lord, the Most High,
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Exalt the name of your Lord, the Most High,
Al A'la
Chapter 87, 19 verses
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Who creates, then makes complete,
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Who created and proportioned
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And Who makes (things) according to a measure, then guides (them to their goal),
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And who destined and [then] guided
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And Who brings forth herbage,
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And who brings out the pasture
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Then makes it dried up, dust - colored.
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And [then] makes it black stubble.
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We will make you recite so you shall not forget,
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We will make you recite, [O Muhammad], and you will not forget,
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Except what Allah pleases, surely He knows the manifest, and what is hidden.
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Except what Allah should will. Indeed, He knows what is declared and what is hidden.
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And We will make your way smooth to a state of ease.
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And We will ease you toward ease.
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Therefore do remind, surely reminding does profit.
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So remind, if the reminder should benefit;
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He who fears will mind,
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He who fears [Allah] will be reminded.
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And the most unfortunate one will avoid it,
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But the wretched one will avoid it -
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Who shall enter the great fire;
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[He] who will [enter and] burn in the greatest Fire,
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Then therein he shall neither live nor die.
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Neither dying therein nor living.
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He indeed shall be who purifies himself,
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He has certainly succeeded who purifies himself
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And magnifies the name of his Lord and prays.
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And mentions the name of his Lord and prays.
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Nay! you prefer the life of this world,
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But you prefer the worldly life,
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While the hereafter is better and more lasting.
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While the Hereafter is better and more enduring.
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Most surely this is in the earlier scriptures,
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Indeed, this is in the former scriptures,
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The scriptures of Ibrahim and Musa.
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The scriptures of Abraham and Moses.