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

1 The Most High

سَبِّحِ اسْمَ رَبِّكَ الْأَعْلَى

Glorify the Name of Allah, your Creator, the Supreme

Sabbihi isma rabbika al-aAAla

الَّذِي خَلَقَ فَسَوَّىٰ

Who created all beings and made them well proportioned, and kept the creation in equilibrium,

Allathee khalaqa fasawwa

وَالَّذِي قَدَّرَ فَهَدَىٰ

Who guided every being to its befitting course and endowed all beings with the impulses determining their direction to a definite end, and He has indicated to man the path of misery and that of happiness and left him to choose his way

Waallathee qaddara fahada

وَالَّذِي أَخْرَجَ الْمَرْعَىٰ

Who also brings forth the vegetation,

Waallathee akhraja almarAAa

فَجَعَلَهُ غُثَاءً أَحْوَىٰ

Then He makes it decay and causes its degeneration

FajaAAalahu ghuthaan ahwa

سَنُقْرِئُكَ فَلَا تَنسَىٰ

We shall make you recite so that you will not forget

Sanuqri-oka fala tansa

إِلَّا مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ إِنَّهُ يَعْلَمُ الْجَهْرَ وَمَا يَخْفَىٰ

Except as Allah will repeal at a later date; He knows what is avowed openly and the open course of action, and He knows what the breasts forge and what they store of thoughts and feelings and all that is suggested secretly to the mind and He knows all that you do out of sigh

Illa ma shaa Allahu innahu yaAAlamu aljahra wama yakhfa

وَنُيَسِّرُكَ لِلْيُسْرَىٰ

We shall facilitate your task and lead you to the facile and ready course

Wanuyassiruka lilyusra

فَذَكِّرْ إِن نَّفَعَتِ الذِّكْرَىٰ

And so, exhort. any who is willing to open his heart's ears and favourably responds

Fathakkir in nafaAAati alththikra

سَيَذَّكَّرُ مَن يَخْشَىٰ

The responsive will be he who reveres Allah with bosom filled with reverential awe

Sayaththakkaru man yakhsha

وَيَتَجَنَّبُهَا الْأَشْقَى

And it -the admonition- will be avoided and unwelcomed by the ill- omened, the unfortunate against whom have been denounced curses and woe

Wayatajannabuha al-ashqa

الَّذِي يَصْلَى النَّارَ الْكُبْرَىٰ

Who will suffer in Hell the immense fire

Allathee yasla alnnara alkubra

ثُمَّ لَا يَمُوتُ فِيهَا وَلَا يَحْيَىٰ

Wherein he does not die nor live or respire

Thumma la yamootu feeha wala yahya

قَدْ أَفْلَحَ مَن تَزَكَّىٰ

But blessed, indeed, is he who vindicates his own wrongs and is kindly disposed to benevolence

Qad aflaha man tazakka

وَذَكَرَ اسْمَ رَبِّهِ فَصَلَّىٰ

Who calls Allah his Creator, to mind and engages in the act of worship, doing to Him sincere reverence

Wathakara isma rabbihi fasalla

بَلْ تُؤْثِرُونَ الْحَيَاةَ الدُّنْيَا

But you people prefer the life here afore the heavenly b1iss, knowing it is illusive and alluring

Bal tu/thiroona alhayata alddunya

وَالْآخِرَةُ خَيْرٌ وَأَبْقَىٰ

While the Hereafter is far better, blissful, infinitely lasting and enduring

Waal-akhiratu khayrun waabqa

إِنَّ هَٰذَا لَفِي الصُّحُفِ الْأُولَىٰ

This indeed, has been emphasized in the earlier Scriptures

Inna hatha lafee alssuhufi al-oola

صُحُفِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَمُوسَىٰ

The Scriptures of Ibrahim and Mussa

Suhufi ibraheema wamoosa

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