Chapter 87, 19 verses
Exalt the name of your Lord, the Most High,
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. Praise the name of thy Lord the Most High,
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم سبح اسم ربك الأعلى
Who created and proportioned
Who createth, then disposeth;
الذي خلق فسوى
And who destined and [then] guided
Who measureth, then guideth;
والذي قدر فهدى
And who brings out the pasture
Who bringeth forth the pasturage,
والذي أخرج المرعى
And [then] makes it black stubble.
Then turneth it to russet stubble.
فجعله غثاء أحوى
We will make you recite, [O Muhammad], and you will not forget,
We shall make thee read (O Muhammad) so that thou shalt not forget
سنقرئك فلا تنسى
Except what Allah should will. Indeed, He knows what is declared and what is hidden.
Save that which Allah willeth. Lo! He knoweth the disclosed and that which still is hidden;
إلا ما شاء الله ۚ إنه يعلم الجهر وما يخفى
And We will ease you toward ease.
And We shall ease thy way unto the state of ease.
ونيسرك لليسرى
So remind, if the reminder should benefit;
Therefor remind (men), for of use is the reminder.
فذكر إن نفعت الذكرى
He who fears [Allah] will be reminded.
He will heed who feareth,
سيذكر من يخشى
But the wretched one will avoid it -
But the most hapless will flout it,
ويتجنبها الأشقى
[He] who will [enter and] burn in the greatest Fire,
He who will be flung to the great Fire
الذي يصلى النار الكبرى
Neither dying therein nor living.
Wherein he will neither die nor live.
ثم لا يموت فيها ولا يحيى
He has certainly succeeded who purifies himself
He is who groweth,
قد أفلح من تزكى
And mentions the name of his Lord and prays.
And remembereth the name of his Lord, so prayeth,
وذكر اسم ربه فصلى
But you prefer the worldly life,
But ye prefer the life of the world
بل تؤثرون الحياة الدنيا
While the Hereafter is better and more enduring.
Although the Hereafter is better and more lasting.
والآخرة خير وأبقى
Indeed, this is in the former scriptures,
Lo! This is in the former scrolls.
إن هذا لفي الصحف الأولى
The scriptures of Abraham and Moses.
The Books of Abraham and Moses.
صحف إبراهيم وموسى