Al-'A`lá

87:1 · page 591

سَبِّحِ ٱسْمَ رَبِّكَ ٱلْأَعْلَى

Exalt the name of your Lord, the Most High,

87:2 · page 591

ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ فَسَوَّىٰ

Who created and proportioned

87:3 · page 591

وَٱلَّذِى قَدَّرَ فَهَدَىٰ

And who destined and [then] guided

87:4 · page 591

وَٱلَّذِىٓ أَخْرَجَ ٱلْمَرْعَىٰ

And who brings out the pasture

87:5 · page 591

فَجَعَلَهُۥ غُثَآءً أَحْوَىٰ

And [then] makes it black stubble.

87:6 · page 591

سَنُقْرِئُكَ فَلَا تَنسَىٰٓ

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

87:7 · page 591

إِلَّا مَا شَآءَ ٱللَّهُ ۚ إِنَّهُۥ يَعْلَمُ ٱلْجَهْرَ وَمَا يَخْفَىٰ

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

87:8 · page 591

وَنُيَسِّرُكَ لِلْيُسْرَىٰ

And We will ease you toward ease.

87:9 · page 591

فَذَكِّرْ إِن نَّفَعَتِ ٱلذِّكْرَىٰ

So remind, if the reminder should benefit;

87:10 · page 591

سَيَذَّكَّرُ مَن يَخْشَىٰ

He who fears [Allāh] will be reminded.

87:11 · page 591

وَيَتَجَنَّبُهَا ٱلْأَشْقَى

But the wretched one will avoid it

87:12 · page 591

ٱلَّذِى يَصْلَى ٱلنَّارَ ٱلْكُبْرَىٰ

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

87:13 · page 591

ثُمَّ لَا يَمُوتُ فِيهَا وَلَا يَحْيَىٰ

Neither dying therein nor living.

87:14 · page 591

قَدْ أَفْلَحَ مَن تَزَكَّىٰ

He has certainly succeeded who purifies himself

87:15 · page 591

وَذَكَرَ ٱسْمَ رَبِّهِۦ فَصَلَّىٰ

And mentions the name of his Lord and prays.

87:16 · page 592

بَلْ تُؤْثِرُونَ ٱلْحَيَوٰةَ ٱلدُّنْيَا

But you prefer the worldly life,

87:17 · page 592

وَٱلْـَٔاخِرَةُ خَيْرٌ وَأَبْقَىٰٓ

While the Hereafter is better and more enduring.

87:18 · page 592

إِنَّ هَـٰذَا لَفِى ٱلصُّحُفِ ٱلْأُولَىٰ

Indeed, this is in the former scriptures,

87:19 · page 592

صُحُفِ إِبْرَٰهِيمَ وَمُوسَىٰ

The scriptures of Abraham and Moses.