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

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

1 Sabbihi isma rabbika alaAAla

2 Who creates, then makes complete,

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

2 Allathee khalaqa fasawwa

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

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).

3 Waallathee qaddara fahada

4 And Who brings forth herbage,

4 And Who brings out the pasturage,

4 Waallathee akhraja almarAAa

5 Then makes it dried up, dust - colored.

5 And then makes it dark stubble.

5 FajaAAalahu ghuthaan ahwa

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

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

6 Sanuqrioka fala tansa

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

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

7 Illa ma shaa Allahu innahu yaAAlamu aljahra wama yakhfa

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

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

8 Wanuyassiruka lilyusra

9 Therefore do remind, surely reminding does profit.

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

9 Fathakkir in nafaAAati alththikra

10 He who fears will mind,

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

10 Sayaththakkaru man yakhsha

11 And the most unfortunate one will avoid it,

11 But it will be avoided by the wretched,

11 Wayatajannabuha alashqa

12 Who shall enter the great fire;

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

12 Allathee yasla alnnara alkubra

13 Then therein he shall neither live nor die.

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

13 Thumma la yamootu feeha wala yahya

14 He indeed shall be successful who purifies himself,

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

14 Qad aflaha man tazakka

15 And magnifies the name of his Lord and prays.

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

15 Wathakara isma rabbihi fasalla

16 Nay! you prefer the life of this world,

16 Nay, you prefer the life of this world,

16 Bal tuthiroona alhayata alddunya

17 While the hereafter is better and more lasting.

17 Although the Hereafter is better and more lasting.

17 Waalakhiratu khayrun waabqa

18 Most surely this is in the earlier scriptures,

18 Verily, this is in the former Scriptures -

18 Inna hatha lafee alssuhufi aloola

19 The scriptures of Ibrahim and Musa.

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

19 Suhufi ibraheema wamoosa