Al A'la

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1 Exalt 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 created and proportioned

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

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3 And who destined and [then] guided

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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 out the pasture

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4 And Who brings out the pasturage,

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5 And [then] makes it black stubble.

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5 And then makes it dark stubble.

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6 We will make you recite, [O Muhammad], and you will 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 should will. Indeed, He knows what is declared 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 ease you toward 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 So remind, if the reminder should benefit;

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

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10 He who fears [Allah] will be reminded.

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

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11 But the wretched one will avoid it -

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11 But it will be avoided by the wretched,

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12 [He] who will [enter and] burn in the greatest 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 Neither dying therein nor living.

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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 has certainly succeeded 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 mentions 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 But you prefer the worldly life,

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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 enduring.

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17 Although the Hereafter is better and more lasting.

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18 Indeed, this is in the former scriptures,

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18 Verily, this is in the former Scriptures -

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19 The scriptures of Abraham and Moses.

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