Al-A‘lâ

سَبِّحِ اسْمَ رَبِّكَ الْأَعْلَى ١

Glorify the Name of your Lord, the Most High,

الَّذِي خَلَقَ فَسَوَّىٰ ٢

He Who has created (everything in the universe) and then (fulfilling all requisites) equipoised it to its exact proportion,

وَالَّذِي قَدَّرَ فَهَدَىٰ ٣

And He Who has determined law, and guided (it to its) way (of sustaining and functioning according to its respective system),

وَالَّذِي أَخْرَجَ الْمَرْعَىٰ ٤

And He Who has brought forth green pasture (from the earth),

فَجَعَلَهُ غُثَاءً أَحْوَىٰ ٥

And then made it blackened stubble.

سَنُقْرِئُكَ فَلَا تَنسَىٰ ٦

(O Esteemed Beloved!) We shall teach you (in a way) that nothing will you (ever) forget,

إِلَّا مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ ۚ إِنَّهُ يَعْلَمُ الْجَهْرَ وَمَا يَخْفَىٰ ٧

Except what Allah wills. Indeed, He knows all, the manifest as well as the hidden (i.e., open to human perception as well as veiled from it, and the audible and the inaudible).

وَنُيَسِّرُكَ لِلْيُسْرَىٰ ٨

And We shall (also) facilitate you (to put into practice this) easy (law).

فَذَكِّرْ إِن نَّفَعَتِ الذِّكْرَىٰ ٩

So keep admonishing, provided admonition benefits (the listeners).

سَيَذَّكَّرُ مَن يَخْشَىٰ ١٠

But only he who fears (Allah) will accept the admonition.

وَيَتَجَنَّبُهَا الْأَشْقَى ١١

And the wretched one will avoid and evade it,

الَّذِي يَصْلَى النَّارَ الْكُبْرَىٰ ١٢

He who will enter the greatest Fire (on the Day of Judgment).

ثُمَّ لَا يَمُوتُ فِيهَا وَلَا يَحْيَىٰ ١٣

Then he will neither die nor live in it.

قَدْ أَفْلَحَ مَن تَزَكَّىٰ ١٤

Indeed, only he who is purified (from the afflictions of his ill-commanding self and pollution of sins) will triumph,

وَذَكَرَ اسْمَ رَبِّهِ فَصَلَّىٰ ١٥

And the one who remembers the Name of his Lord and offers Prayers (regularly and abundantly).

بَلْ تُؤْثِرُونَ الْحَيَاةَ الدُّنْيَا ١٦

Yet you go for the (pleasures of) the worldly life (instead of turning towards Allah),

وَالْآخِرَةُ خَيْرٌ وَأَبْقَىٰ ١٧

Whereas (the comfort and pleasure of) the Hereafter is preferable and everlasting.

إِنَّ هَٰذَا لَفِي الصُّحُفِ الْأُولَىٰ ١٨

Indeed, this (enlightenment) is (also contained) in earlier scriptures,

صُحُفِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَمُوسَىٰ ١٩

The scriptures of Ibrahim (Abraham) and Musa (Moses).