The Most High, Glory to your Lord in the Highest — N J Dawood 2014 Translation – Parallel Quran

1 The Most High

سَبِّحِ اسْمَ رَبِّكَ الْأَعْلَى

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PRAISE THE Name of your Lord, the Most High

Sabbihi isma rabbika al-aAAla

الَّذِي خَلَقَ فَسَوَّىٰ

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who created all things and gave them due proportion

Allathee khalaqa fasawwa

وَالَّذِي قَدَّرَ فَهَدَىٰ

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who has ordained their destinies and guided them

Waallathee qaddara fahada

وَالَّذِي أَخْرَجَ الْمَرْعَىٰ

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who brings forth the green pasture

Waallathee akhraja almarAAa

فَجَعَلَهُ غُثَاءً أَحْوَىٰ

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then turns it to withered grass

FajaAAalahu ghuthaan ahwa

سَنُقْرِئُكَ فَلَا تَنسَىٰ

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We shall make you read, so that you shall never forge

Sanuqri-oka fala tansa

إِلَّا مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ إِنَّهُ يَعْلَمُ الْجَهْرَ وَمَا يَخْفَىٰ

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except as God pleases. He has knowledge of the manifest, and the hidden

Illa ma shaa Allahu innahu yaAAlamu aljahra wama yakhfa

وَنُيَسِّرُكَ لِلْيُسْرَىٰ

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We shall guide you to the smoothest path

Wanuyassiruka lilyusra

فَذَكِّرْ إِن نَّفَعَتِ الذِّكْرَىٰ

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Therefore admonish, if admonishment will avail

Fathakkir in nafaAAati alththikra

سَيَذَّكَّرُ مَن يَخْشَىٰ

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He that fears God will pay heed

Sayaththakkaru man yakhsha

وَيَتَجَنَّبُهَا الْأَشْقَى

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but the wretched sinner will flout it

Wayatajannabuha al-ashqa

الَّذِي يَصْلَى النَّارَ الْكُبْرَىٰ

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He shall burn in the gigantic Fire

Allathee yasla alnnara alkubra

ثُمَّ لَا يَمُوتُ فِيهَا وَلَا يَحْيَىٰ

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wherein shall he then neither die nor live

Thumma la yamootu feeha wala yahya

قَدْ أَفْلَحَ مَن تَزَكَّىٰ

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Happy shall be he that keeps himself pure

Qad aflaha man tazakka

وَذَكَرَ اسْمَ رَبِّهِ فَصَلَّىٰ

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that remembers the name of his Lord and prays

Wathakara isma rabbihi fasalla

بَلْ تُؤْثِرُونَ الْحَيَاةَ الدُّنْيَا

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Yet you¹ prefer the life of this world

Bal tu/thiroona alhayata alddunya

وَالْآخِرَةُ خَيْرٌ وَأَبْقَىٰ

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although the life to come is better and more lasting

Waal-akhiratu khayrun waabqa

إِنَّ هَٰذَا لَفِي الصُّحُفِ الْأُولَىٰ

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This is surely set down in earlier Scriptures

Inna hatha lafee alssuhufi al-oola

صُحُفِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَمُوسَىٰ

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the Scriptures of Abraham and Moses

Suhufi ibraheema wamoosa

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