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Al-A'laa

The Most High · Meccan · 19 verses

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سُورَةُ الأَعۡلَىٰ

Al-A'laa · 19 verses

87 : 1

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ سَبِّحِ ٱسْمَ رَبِّكَ ٱلْأَعْلَى

Ahmed Ali

GLORIFY THE NAME of your Lord, most high,

87 : 2

ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ فَسَوَّىٰ

Ahmed Ali

Who creates and proportions,

87 : 3

وَٱلَّذِى قَدَّرَ فَهَدَىٰ

Ahmed Ali

Who determines and directs,

87 : 4

وَٱلَّذِىٓ أَخْرَجَ ٱلْمَرْعَىٰ

Ahmed Ali

Who brings out the pastures

87 : 5

فَجَعَلَهُۥ غُثَآءً أَحْوَىٰ

Ahmed Ali

Then reduces them to rusty rubbish.

87 : 6

سَنُقْرِئُكَ فَلَا تَنسَىٰٓ

Ahmed Ali

We shall make you recite (the Qur'an) so that you will not forget it,

87 : 7

إِلَّا مَا شَآءَ ٱللَّهُ ۚ إِنَّهُۥ يَعْلَمُ ٱلْجَهْرَ وَمَا يَخْفَىٰ

Ahmed Ali

Unless God may please. He knows the visible and knows what is hidden.

87 : 8

وَنُيَسِّرُكَ لِلْيُسْرَىٰ

Ahmed Ali

We shall take you slowly towards ease.

87 : 9

فَذَكِّرْ إِن نَّفَعَتِ ٱلذِّكْرَىٰ

Ahmed Ali

So remind them if reminder is profitable:

87 : 10

سَيَذَّكَّرُ مَن يَخْشَىٰ

Ahmed Ali

Those who fear will understand.

87 : 11

وَيَتَجَنَّبُهَا ٱلْأَشْقَى

Ahmed Ali

Only the wretch will turn aside,

87 : 12

ٱلَّذِى يَصْلَى ٱلنَّارَ ٱلْكُبْرَىٰ

Ahmed Ali

Who will burn in the terrible Fire,

87 : 13

ثُمَّ لَا يَمُوتُ فِيهَا وَلَا يَحْيَىٰ

Ahmed Ali

In which he will neither die nor live.

87 : 14

قَدْ أَفْلَحَ مَن تَزَكَّىٰ

Ahmed Ali

Surely he will succeed who grows in goodness,

87 : 15

وَذَكَرَ ٱسْمَ رَبِّهِۦ فَصَلَّىٰ

Ahmed Ali

And recites the name of his Lord and serves with devotion.

87 : 16

بَلْ تُؤْثِرُونَ ٱلْحَيَوٰةَ ٱلدُّنْيَا

Ahmed Ali

But no, you prefer the life of the world,

87 : 17

وَٱلْءَاخِرَةُ خَيْرٌۭ وَأَبْقَىٰٓ

Ahmed Ali

Though the life to come is better and abiding.

87 : 18

إِنَّ هَٰذَا لَفِى ٱلصُّحُفِ ٱلْأُولَىٰ

Ahmed Ali

This is surely in the earlier Books,

87 : 19

صُحُفِ إِبْرَٰهِيمَ وَمُوسَىٰ

Ahmed Ali

The Books of Abraham and Moses.

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