Al-A'laa

Sabbihi isma rabbika al-aAAla

Exalt the name of your Lord, the Most High,

Allathee khalaqa fasawwa

Who created and proportioned

Wallathee qaddara fahada

And who destined and [then] guided

Wallathee akhraja almarAAa

And who brings out the pasture

FajaAAalahu ghuthaan ahwa

And [then] makes it black stubble.

Sanuqri-oka fala tansa

We will make you recite, [O Muḥammad], and you will not forget,

Illa ma shaa Allahuinnahu yaAAlamu aljahra wama yakhfa

Except what Allāh should will. Indeed, He knows what is declared and what is hidden.

Wanuyassiruka lilyusra

And We will ease you toward ease.

Fathakkir in nafaAAati aththikra

So remind, if the reminder should benefit;

Sayaththakkaru man yakhsha

He who fears [Allāh] will be reminded.

Wayatajannabuha al-ashqa

But the wretched one will avoid it

Allathee yasla annaraalkubra

[He] who will [enter and] burn in the greatest Fire,

Thumma la yamootu feeha walayahya

Neither dying therein nor living.

Qad aflaha man tazakka

He has certainly succeeded who purifies himself

Wathakara isma rabbihi fasalla

And mentions the name of his Lord and prays.

Bal tu/thiroona alhayata addunya

But you prefer the worldly life,

Wal-akhiratu khayrun waabqa

While the Hereafter is better and more enduring.

Inna hatha lafee assuhufial-oola

Indeed, this is in the former scriptures,

Suhufi ibraheema wamoosa

The scriptures of Abraham and Moses.