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Ahmed Ali

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87 Al-'A`lá ٱلْأَعْلَىٰ

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بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

87:1 سَبِّحِ ٱسْمَ رَبِّكَ ٱلْأَعْلَى
87:1
Ahmed Ali (English) :
GLORIFY THE NAME of your Lord, most high,

87:2 ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ فَسَوَّىٰ
87:2
Ahmed Ali (English) :
Who creates and proportions,

87:3 وَٱلَّذِى قَدَّرَ فَهَدَىٰ
87:3
Ahmed Ali (English) :
Who determines and directs,

87:4 وَٱلَّذِىٓ أَخْرَجَ ٱلْمَرْعَىٰ
87:4
Ahmed Ali (English) :
Who brings out the pastures

87:5 فَجَعَلَهُۥ غُثَآءً أَحْوَىٰ
87:5
Ahmed Ali (English) :
Then reduces them to rusty rubbish.

87:6 سَنُقْرِئُكَ فَلَا تَنسَىٰٓ
87:6
Ahmed Ali (English) :
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
87:7
Ahmed Ali (English) :
Unless God may please. He knows the visible and knows what is hidden.

87:8 وَنُيَسِّرُكَ لِلْيُسْرَىٰ
87:8
Ahmed Ali (English) :
We shall take you slowly towards ease.

87:9 فَذَكِّرْ إِن نَّفَعَتِ ٱلذِّكْرَىٰ
87:9
Ahmed Ali (English) :
So remind them if reminder is profitable:

87:10 سَيَذَّكَّرُ مَن يَخْشَىٰ
87:10
Ahmed Ali (English) :
Those who fear will understand.

87:11 وَيَتَجَنَّبُهَا ٱلْأَشْقَى
87:11
Ahmed Ali (English) :
Only the wretch will turn aside,

87:12 ٱلَّذِى يَصْلَى ٱلنَّارَ ٱلْكُبْرَىٰ
87:12
Ahmed Ali (English) :
Who will burn in the terrible Fire,

87:13 ثُمَّ لَا يَمُوتُ فِيهَا وَلَا يَحْيَىٰ
87:13
Ahmed Ali (English) :
In which he will neither die nor live.

87:14 قَدْ أَفْلَحَ مَن تَزَكَّىٰ
87:14
Ahmed Ali (English) :
Surely he will succeed who grows in goodness,

87:15 وَذَكَرَ ٱسْمَ رَبِّهِۦ فَصَلَّىٰ
87:15
Ahmed Ali (English) :
And recites the name of his Lord and serves with devotion.

87:16 بَلْ تُؤْثِرُونَ ٱلْحَيَوٰةَ ٱلدُّنْيَا
87:16
Ahmed Ali (English) :
But no, you prefer the life of the world,

87:17 وَٱلْـَٔاخِرَةُ خَيْرٌ وَأَبْقَىٰٓ
87:17
Ahmed Ali (English) :
Though the life to come is better and abiding.

87:18 إِنَّ هَـٰذَا لَفِى ٱلصُّحُفِ ٱلْأُولَىٰ
87:18
Ahmed Ali (English) :
This is surely in the earlier Books,

87:19 صُحُفِ إِبْرَٰهِيمَ وَمُوسَىٰ
87:19
Ahmed Ali (English) :
The Books of Abraham and Moses.