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Al-Aʿlā · The Most Exalted
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The tafsir of this chapter is being written. The Arabic and its translation are here in full.
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
- 87:1
سَبِّحِ ٱسْمَ رَبِّكَ ٱلْأَعْلَى ﴿١﴾
Celebrate the Name of your Lord, the Most Exalted,
- 87:2
ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ فَسَوَّىٰ ﴿٢﴾
who created and proportioned,
- 87:3
وَٱلَّذِى قَدَّرَ فَهَدَىٰ ﴿٣﴾
who determined and guided,
- 87:4
وَٱلَّذِىٓ أَخْرَجَ ٱلْمَرْعَىٰ ﴿٤﴾
who brought forth the pasture
- 87:5
فَجَعَلَهُۥ غُثَآءً أَحْوَىٰ ﴿٥﴾
and then turned it into a black scum.
- 87:6
سَنُقْرِئُكَ فَلَا تَنسَىٰٓ ﴿٦﴾
We shall have you recite [the Quran], then you will not forget [any of it]
- 87:7
إِلَّا مَا شَآءَ ٱللَّهُ ۚ إِنَّهُۥ يَعْلَمُ ٱلْجَهْرَ وَمَا يَخْفَىٰ ﴿٧﴾
except what Allah may wish. Indeed, He knows the open and what is hidden.
- 87:8
وَنُيَسِّرُكَ لِلْيُسْرَىٰ ﴿٨﴾
And We shall ease you into facility.
- 87:9
فَذَكِّرْ إِن نَّفَعَتِ ٱلذِّكْرَىٰ ﴿٩﴾
So admonish, for admonition is indeed beneficial:
- 87:10
سَيَذَّكَّرُ مَن يَخْشَىٰ ﴿١٠﴾
he who fears [God] will take admonition,
- 87:11
وَيَتَجَنَّبُهَا ٱلْأَشْقَى ﴿١١﴾
and the most wretched will shun it
- 87:12
ٱلَّذِى يَصْلَى ٱلنَّارَ ٱلْكُبْرَىٰ ﴿١٢﴾
—he who will enter the Great Fire,
- 87:13
ثُمَّ لَا يَمُوتُ فِيهَا وَلَا يَحْيَىٰ ﴿١٣﴾
then he will neither live in it, nor die.
- 87:14
قَدْ أَفْلَحَ مَن تَزَكَّىٰ ﴿١٤﴾
‘Felicitous is he who purifies himself,
- 87:15
وَذَكَرَ ٱسْمَ رَبِّهِۦ فَصَلَّىٰ ﴿١٥﴾
celebrates the Name of his Lord, and prays.
- 87:16
بَلْ تُؤْثِرُونَ ٱلْحَيَوٰةَ ٱلدُّنْيَا ﴿١٦﴾
But you prefer the life of this world,
- 87:17
وَٱلْـَٔاخِرَةُ خَيْرٌ وَأَبْقَىٰٓ ﴿١٧﴾
while the Hereafter is better and more lasting.’
- 87:18
إِنَّ هَٰذَا لَفِى ٱلصُّحُفِ ٱلْأُولَىٰ ﴿١٨﴾
This is indeed in the former scriptures,
- 87:19
صُحُفِ إِبْرَٰهِيمَ وَمُوسَىٰ ﴿١٩﴾
the scriptures of Abraham and Moses.