87. Al-A'la

سَبِّحِ ٱسْمَ رَبِّكَ ٱلْأَعْلَى

Exalt the name of your Lord, the Most High,

sabbiḥi is'ma rabbika l-aʿlā

ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ فَسَوَّىٰ

Who created and proportioned

alladhī khalaqa fasawwā

وَٱلَّذِى قَدَّرَ فَهَدَىٰ

And who destined and [then] guided

wa-alladhī qaddara fahadā

وَٱلَّذِىٓ أَخْرَجَ ٱلْمَرْعَىٰ

And who brings out the pasture

wa-alladhī akhraja l-marʿā

فَجَعَلَهُۥ غُثَآءً أَحْوَىٰ

And [then] makes it black stubble.

fajaʿalahu ghuthāan aḥwā

سَنُقْرِئُكَ فَلَا تَنسَىٰٓ

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

sanuq'ri-uka falā tansā

إِلَّا مَا شَآءَ ٱللَّهُ ۚ إِنَّهُۥ يَعْلَمُ ٱلْجَهْرَ وَمَا يَخْفَىٰ

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

illā mā shāa l-lahu innahu yaʿlamu l-jahra wamā yakhfā

وَنُيَسِّرُكَ لِلْيُسْرَىٰ

And We will ease you toward ease.1

wanuyassiruka lil'yus'rā

فَذَكِّرْ إِن نَّفَعَتِ ٱلذِّكْرَىٰ

So remind, if the reminder should benefit;1

fadhakkir in nafaʿati l-dhik'rā

سَيَذَّكَّرُ مَن يَخْشَىٰ

He who fears [Allāh] will be reminded.

sayadhakkaru man yakhshā

وَيَتَجَنَّبُهَا ٱلْأَشْقَى

But the wretched one will avoid it

wayatajannabuhā l-ashqā

ٱلَّذِى يَصْلَى ٱلنَّارَ ٱلْكُبْرَىٰ

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

alladhī yaṣlā l-nāra l-kub'rā

ثُمَّ لَا يَمُوتُ فِيهَا وَلَا يَحْيَىٰ

Neither dying therein nor living.

thumma lā yamūtu fīhā walā yaḥyā

قَدْ أَفْلَحَ مَن تَزَكَّىٰ

He has certainly succeeded who purifies himself

qad aflaḥa man tazakkā

وَذَكَرَ ٱسْمَ رَبِّهِۦ فَصَلَّىٰ

And mentions the name of his Lord and prays.

wadhakara is'ma rabbihi faṣallā

بَلْ تُؤْثِرُونَ ٱلْحَيَوٰةَ ٱلدُّنْيَا

But you prefer the worldly life,

bal tu'thirūna l-ḥayata l-dun'yā

وَٱلْـَٔاخِرَةُ خَيْرٌ وَأَبْقَىٰٓ

While the Hereafter is better and more enduring.

wal-ākhiratu khayrun wa-abqā

إِنَّ هَـٰذَا لَفِى ٱلصُّحُفِ ٱلْأُولَىٰ

Indeed, this is in the former scriptures,

inna hādhā lafī l-ṣuḥufi l-ūlā

صُحُفِ إِبْرَٰهِيمَ وَمُوسَىٰ

The scriptures of Abraham and Moses.

ṣuḥufi ib'rāhīma wamūsā