Surah Al-A'la · The Most High

سَبِّحِ ٱسْمَ رَبِّكَ ٱلْأَعْلَى ۝١

sabbiḥi is'ma rabbika l-aʿlā

Exalt the name of your Lord, the Most High,

ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ فَسَوَّىٰ ۝٢

alladhī khalaqa fasawwā

Who created and proportioned

وَٱلَّذِى قَدَّرَ فَهَدَىٰ ۝٣

wa-alladhī qaddara fahadā

And who destined and [then] guided

وَٱلَّذِىٓ أَخْرَجَ ٱلْمَرْعَىٰ ۝٤

wa-alladhī akhraja l-marʿā

And who brings out the pasture

فَجَعَلَهُۥ غُثَآءً أَحْوَىٰ ۝٥

fajaʿalahu ghuthāan aḥwā

And [then] makes it black stubble.

سَنُقْرِئُكَ فَلَا تَنسَىٰٓ ۝٦

sanuq'ri-uka falā tansā

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

إِلَّا مَا شَآءَ ٱللَّهُ ۚ إِنَّهُۥ يَعْلَمُ ٱلْجَهْرَ وَمَا يَخْفَىٰ ۝٧

illā mā shāa l-lahu innahu yaʿlamu l-jahra wamā yakhfā

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

وَنُيَسِّرُكَ لِلْيُسْرَىٰ ۝٨

wanuyassiruka lil'yus'rā

And We will ease you toward ease.

فَذَكِّرْ إِن نَّفَعَتِ ٱلذِّكْرَىٰ ۝٩

fadhakkir in nafaʿati l-dhik'rā

So remind, if the reminder should benefit;

سَيَذَّكَّرُ مَن يَخْشَىٰ ۝١٠

sayadhakkaru man yakhshā

He who fears [Allāh] will be reminded.

وَيَتَجَنَّبُهَا ٱلْأَشْقَى ۝١١

wayatajannabuhā l-ashqā

But the wretched one will avoid it

ٱلَّذِى يَصْلَى ٱلنَّارَ ٱلْكُبْرَىٰ ۝١٢

alladhī yaṣlā l-nāra l-kub'rā

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

ثُمَّ لَا يَمُوتُ فِيهَا وَلَا يَحْيَىٰ ۝١٣

thumma lā yamūtu fīhā walā yaḥyā

Neither dying therein nor living.

قَدْ أَفْلَحَ مَن تَزَكَّىٰ ۝١٤

qad aflaḥa man tazakkā

He has certainly succeeded who purifies himself

وَذَكَرَ ٱسْمَ رَبِّهِۦ فَصَلَّىٰ ۝١٥

wadhakara is'ma rabbihi faṣallā

And mentions the name of his Lord and prays.

بَلْ تُؤْثِرُونَ ٱلْحَيَوٰةَ ٱلدُّنْيَا ۝١٦

bal tu'thirūna l-ḥayata l-dun'yā

But you prefer the worldly life,

وَٱلْـَٔاخِرَةُ خَيْرٌ وَأَبْقَىٰٓ ۝١٧

wal-ākhiratu khayrun wa-abqā

While the Hereafter is better and more enduring.

إِنَّ هَـٰذَا لَفِى ٱلصُّحُفِ ٱلْأُولَىٰ ۝١٨

inna hādhā lafī l-ṣuḥufi l-ūlā

Indeed, this is in the former scriptures,

صُحُفِ إِبْرَٰهِيمَ وَمُوسَىٰ ۝١٩

ṣuḥufi ib'rāhīma wamūsā

The scriptures of Abraham and Moses.