The Most High, Glory to your Lord in the Highest — Ahmed Ali Translation – Parallel Quran

1 The Most High

سَبِّحِ اسْمَ رَبِّكَ الْأَعْلَى

GLORIFY THE NAME of your Lord, most high

Sabbihi isma rabbika al-aAAla

الَّذِي خَلَقَ فَسَوَّىٰ

Who creates and proportions

Allathee khalaqa fasawwa

وَالَّذِي قَدَّرَ فَهَدَىٰ

Who determines and directs

Waallathee qaddara fahada

وَالَّذِي أَخْرَجَ الْمَرْعَىٰ

Who brings out the pasture

Waallathee akhraja almarAAa

فَجَعَلَهُ غُثَاءً أَحْوَىٰ

Then reduces them to rusty rubbish

FajaAAalahu ghuthaan ahwa

سَنُقْرِئُكَ فَلَا تَنسَىٰ

We shall make you recite (the Qur'an) so that you will not forget it

Sanuqri-oka fala tansa

إِلَّا مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ إِنَّهُ يَعْلَمُ الْجَهْرَ وَمَا يَخْفَىٰ

Unless God may please. He knows the visible and knows what is hidden

Illa ma shaa Allahu innahu yaAAlamu aljahra wama yakhfa

وَنُيَسِّرُكَ لِلْيُسْرَىٰ

We shall take you slowly towards ease

Wanuyassiruka lilyusra

فَذَكِّرْ إِن نَّفَعَتِ الذِّكْرَىٰ

So remind them if reminder is profitable

Fathakkir in nafaAAati alththikra

سَيَذَّكَّرُ مَن يَخْشَىٰ

Those who fear will understand

Sayaththakkaru man yakhsha

وَيَتَجَنَّبُهَا الْأَشْقَى

Only the wretch will turn aside

Wayatajannabuha al-ashqa

الَّذِي يَصْلَى النَّارَ الْكُبْرَىٰ

Who will burn in the terrible Fire

Allathee yasla alnnara alkubra

ثُمَّ لَا يَمُوتُ فِيهَا وَلَا يَحْيَىٰ

In which he will neither die nor live

Thumma la yamootu feeha wala yahya

قَدْ أَفْلَحَ مَن تَزَكَّىٰ

Surely he will succeed who grows in goodness

Qad aflaha man tazakka

وَذَكَرَ اسْمَ رَبِّهِ فَصَلَّىٰ

And recites the name of his Lord and serves with devotion

Wathakara isma rabbihi fasalla

بَلْ تُؤْثِرُونَ الْحَيَاةَ الدُّنْيَا

But no, you prefer the life of the world

Bal tu/thiroona alhayata alddunya

وَالْآخِرَةُ خَيْرٌ وَأَبْقَىٰ

Though the life to come is better and abiding

Waal-akhiratu khayrun waabqa

إِنَّ هَٰذَا لَفِي الصُّحُفِ الْأُولَىٰ

This is surely in the earlier Books

Inna hatha lafee alssuhufi al-oola

صُحُفِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَمُوسَىٰ

The Books of Abraham and Moses

Suhufi ibraheema wamoosa

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