Chapter 87, 19 verses
Sabbihi isma rabbika alaAAla
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,
Allathee khalaqa fasawwa
Who creates, then makes complete,
Who has created (everything), and then proportioned it.
Waallathee qaddara fahada
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).
Waallathee akhraja almarAAa
And Who brings forth herbage,
And Who brings out the pasturage,
FajaAAalahu ghuthaan ahwa
Then makes it dried up, dust - colored.
And then makes it dark stubble.
Sanuqrioka fala tansa
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),
Illa ma shaa Allahu innahu yaAAlamu aljahra wama yakhfa
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.
Wanuyassiruka lilyusra
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).
Fathakkir in nafaAAati alththikra
Therefore do remind, surely reminding does profit.
Therefore remind (men) in case the reminder profits (them).
Sayaththakkaru man yakhsha
He who fears will mind,
The reminder will be received by him who fears (Allah),
Wayatajannabuha alashqa
And the most unfortunate one will avoid it,
But it will be avoided by the wretched,
Allathee yasla alnnara alkubra
Who shall enter the great fire;
Who will enter the great Fire (and will be made to taste its burning).
Thumma la yamootu feeha wala yahya
Then therein he shall neither live nor die.
There he will neither die (to be in rest) nor live (a good living).
Qad aflaha man tazakka
He indeed shall be who purifies himself,
Indeed whosoever purifies himself (by avoiding polytheism and accepting Islamic Monotheism) shall achieve success,
Wathakara isma rabbihi fasalla
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).
Bal tuthiroona alhayata alddunya
Nay! you prefer the life of this world,
Nay, you prefer the life of this world,
Waalakhiratu khayrun waabqa
While the hereafter is better and more lasting.
Although the Hereafter is better and more lasting.
Inna hatha lafee alssuhufi aloola
Most surely this is in the earlier scriptures,
Verily, this is in the former Scriptures -
Suhufi ibraheema wamoosa
The scriptures of Ibrahim and Musa.
The Scriptures of Ibrahim (Abraham) and Musa (Moses) (عليهما السلام).