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,
Who created and proportioned
Who createth, then disposeth;
And who destined and [then] guided
Who measureth, then guideth;
And who brings out the pasture
Who bringeth forth the pasturage,
And [then] makes it black stubble.
Then turneth it to russet stubble.
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
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;
And We will ease you toward ease.
And We shall ease thy way unto the state of ease.
So remind, if the reminder should benefit;
Therefor remind (men), for of use is the reminder.
He who fears [Allah] will be reminded.
He will heed who feareth,
But the wretched one will avoid it -
But the most hapless will flout it,
[He] who will [enter and] burn in the greatest Fire,
He who will be flung to the great Fire
Neither dying therein nor living.
Wherein he will neither die nor live.
He has certainly succeeded who purifies himself
He is who groweth,
And mentions the name of his Lord and prays.
And remembereth the name of his Lord, so prayeth,
But you prefer the worldly life,
But ye prefer the life of the world
While the Hereafter is better and more enduring.
Although the Hereafter is better and more lasting.
Indeed, this is in the former scriptures,
Lo! This is in the former scrolls.
The scriptures of Abraham and Moses.
The Books of Abraham and Moses.