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

1 The Most High

سَبِّحِ اسْمَ رَبِّكَ الْأَعْلَى

Extol the name of your Lord, the Highest,

Sabbihi isma rabbika al-aAAla

الَّذِي خَلَقَ فَسَوَّىٰ

who has created and given proportion,

Allathee khalaqa fasawwa

وَالَّذِي قَدَّرَ فَهَدَىٰ

who has directed and guided,

Waallathee qaddara fahada

وَالَّذِي أَخْرَجَ الْمَرْعَىٰ

who has brought forth pasture

Waallathee akhraja almarAAa

فَجَعَلَهُ غُثَاءً أَحْوَىٰ

and turned it into brown straw.

FajaAAalahu ghuthaan ahwa

سَنُقْرِئُكَ فَلَا تَنسَىٰ

We will make you recite so you will not forget

Sanuqri-oka fala tansa

إِلَّا مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ إِنَّهُ يَعْلَمُ الْجَهْرَ وَمَا يَخْفَىٰ

except what God wills. For God knows the apparent and the concealed.

Illa ma shaa Allahu innahu yaAAlamu aljahra wama yakhfa

وَنُيَسِّرُكَ لِلْيُسْرَىٰ

And We ease you into what is most easy:

Wanuyassiruka lilyusra

فَذَكِّرْ إِن نَّفَعَتِ الذِّكْرَىٰ

so remind, if reminder avails.

Fathakkir in nafaAAati alththikra

سَيَذَّكَّرُ مَن يَخْشَىٰ

The God-fearing will be reminded,

Sayaththakkaru man yakhsha

وَيَتَجَنَّبُهَا الْأَشْقَى

but the most wretched will tum aside,

Wayatajannabuha al-ashqa

الَّذِي يَصْلَى النَّارَ الْكُبْرَىٰ

those who enter the greatest fire,

Allathee yasla alnnara alkubra

ثُمَّ لَا يَمُوتُ فِيهَا وَلَا يَحْيَىٰ

where they neither die nor live.

Thumma la yamootu feeha wala yahya

قَدْ أَفْلَحَ مَن تَزَكَّىٰ

Happy are those who have purified themselves

Qad aflaha man tazakka

وَذَكَرَ اسْمَ رَبِّهِ فَصَلَّىٰ

and remember the name of their Lord and pray.

Wathakara isma rabbihi fasalla

بَلْ تُؤْثِرُونَ الْحَيَاةَ الدُّنْيَا

But you prefer the life of the world,

Bal tu/thiroona alhayata alddunya

وَالْآخِرَةُ خَيْرٌ وَأَبْقَىٰ

though the Hereafter is better and more lasting.

Waal-akhiratu khayrun waabqa

إِنَّ هَٰذَا لَفِي الصُّحُفِ الْأُولَىٰ

This is, in fact, in the books of the ancients,

Inna hatha lafee alssuhufi al-oola

صُحُفِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَمُوسَىٰ

the books of Abraham and Moses.

Suhufi ibraheema wamoosa

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