Al-A'laa

سَبِّحِ ٱسْمَ رَبِّكَ ٱلْأَعْلَى

Transliteration: Sabbihi isma rabbika alaAAla

Exalt the name of your Lord, the Most High

ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ فَسَوَّىٰ

Transliteration: Allathee khalaqa fasawwa

Who created and proportioned

وَٱلَّذِى قَدَّرَ فَهَدَىٰ

Transliteration: Waallathee qaddara fahada

And who destined and [then] guided

وَٱلَّذِىٓ أَخْرَجَ ٱلْمَرْعَىٰ

Transliteration: Waallathee akhraja almarAAa

And who brings out the pasture

فَجَعَلَهُۥ غُثَآءً أَحْوَىٰ

Transliteration: FajaAAalahu ghuthaan ahwa

And [then] makes it black stubble

سَنُقْرِئُكَ فَلَا تَنسَىٰٓ

Transliteration: Sanuqrioka fala tansa

We will make you recite, [O Muhammad], and you will not forget

إِلَّا مَا شَآءَ ٱللَّهُ ۚ إِنَّهُۥ يَعْلَمُ ٱلْجَهْرَ وَمَا يَخْفَىٰ

Transliteration: Illa ma shaa Allahu innahu yaAAlamu aljahra wama yakhfa

Except what Allah should will. Indeed, He knows what is declared and what is hidden

وَنُيَسِّرُكَ لِلْيُسْرَىٰ

Transliteration: Wanuyassiruka lilyusra

And We will ease you toward ease

فَذَكِّرْ إِن نَّفَعَتِ ٱلذِّكْرَىٰ

Transliteration: Fathakkir in nafaAAati alththikra

So remind, if the reminder should benefit

سَيَذَّكَّرُ مَن يَخْشَىٰ

Transliteration: Sayaththakkaru man yakhsha

He who fears [Allah] will be reminded

وَيَتَجَنَّبُهَا ٱلْأَشْقَى

Transliteration: Wayatajannabuha alashqa

But the wretched one will avoid it

ٱلَّذِى يَصْلَى ٱلنَّارَ ٱلْكُبْرَىٰ

Transliteration: Allathee yasla alnnara alkubra

[He] who will [enter and] burn in the greatest Fire

ثُمَّ لَا يَمُوتُ فِيهَا وَلَا يَحْيَىٰ

Transliteration: Thumma la yamootu feeha wala yahya

Neither dying therein nor living

قَدْ أَفْلَحَ مَن تَزَكَّىٰ

Transliteration: Qad aflaha man tazakka

He has certainly succeeded who purifies himself

وَذَكَرَ ٱسْمَ رَبِّهِۦ فَصَلَّىٰ

Transliteration: Wathakara isma rabbihi fasalla

And mentions the name of his Lord and prays

بَلْ تُؤْثِرُونَ ٱلْحَيَوٰةَ ٱلدُّنْيَا

Transliteration: Bal tuthiroona alhayata alddunya

But you prefer the worldly life

وَٱلْـَٔاخِرَةُ خَيْرٌ وَأَبْقَىٰٓ

Transliteration: Waalakhiratu khayrun waabqa

While the Hereafter is better and more enduring

إِنَّ هَـٰذَا لَفِى ٱلصُّحُفِ ٱلْأُولَىٰ

Transliteration: Inna hatha lafee alssuhufi aloola

Indeed, this is in the former scriptures

صُحُفِ إِبْرَٰهِيمَ وَمُوسَىٰ

Transliteration: Suhufi ibraheema wamoosa

The scriptures of Abraham and Moses