Chapter 87, 19 verses
Glorify the name of your Lord, the Most High,
Glorify the name of thy Guardian - Lord Most High,
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Glorify the Name of your Lord, the Most High,
Who creates, then makes complete,
Who hath created, and further, given order and proportion;
Who has created (everything), and then proportioned it.
And Who makes (things) according to a measure, then guides (them to their goal),
Who hath ordained laws. And granted guidance;
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).
And Who brings forth herbage,
And Who bringeth out the (green and luscious) pasture,
And Who brings out the pasturage,
Then makes it dried up, dust - colored.
And then doth make it (but) swarthy stubble.
And then makes it dark stubble.
We will make you recite so you shall not forget,
By degrees shall We teach thee to declare (the Message), so thou shalt not forget,
We shall make you to recite (the Qur'an), so you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) shall not forget (it),
Except what Allah pleases, surely He knows the manifest, and what is hidden.
Except as Allah wills: For He knoweth what is manifest and what is hidden.
Except what Allah may will. He knows what is apparent and what is hidden.
And We will make your way smooth to a state of ease.
And We will make it easy for thee (to follow) the simple (Path).
And We shall make easy for you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) the easy way (i.e. the doing of righteous deeds).
Therefore do remind, surely reminding does profit.
Therefore give admonition in case the admonition profits (the hearer).
Therefore remind (men) in case the reminder profits (them).
He who fears will mind,
The admonition will be received by those who fear (Allah):
The reminder will be received by him who fears (Allah),
And the most unfortunate one will avoid it,
But it will be avoided by those most unfortunate ones,
But it will be avoided by the wretched,
Who shall enter the great fire;
Who will enter the Great Fire,
Who will enter the great Fire (and will be made to taste its burning).
Then therein he shall neither live nor die.
In which they will then neither die nor live.
There he will neither die (to be in rest) nor live (a good living).
He indeed shall be who purifies himself,
But those will prosper who purify themselves,
Indeed whosoever purifies himself (by avoiding polytheism and accepting Islamic Monotheism) shall achieve success,
And magnifies the name of his Lord and prays.
And glorify the name of their Guardian - Lord, and (lift their hearts) in prayer.
And remembers (glorifies) the Name of his Lord (worships none but Allah), and prays (five compulsory prayers and Nawafil - additional prayers).
Nay! you prefer the life of this world,
Nay (behold), ye prefer the life of this world;
Nay, you prefer the life of this world,
While the hereafter is better and more lasting.
But the Hereafter is better and more enduring.
Although the Hereafter is better and more lasting.
Most surely this is in the earlier scriptures,
And this is in the Books of the earliest (Revelation), -
Verily, this is in the former Scriptures -
The scriptures of Ibrahim and Musa.
The Books of Abraham and Moses.
The Scriptures of Ibrahim (Abraham) and Musa (Moses) (عليهما السلام).