Read and Listen
سورۃ الأعلى
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بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ سَبِّحِ اسْمَ رَبِّكَ الْأَعْلَى (1)
Proclaim the Purity of your Lord, the Supreme. -
الَّذِى خَلَقَ فَسَوَّىٰ (2)
The One Who created, and then made proper. -
وَالَّذِى قَدَّرَ فَهَدَىٰ (3)
And the One Who kept proper measure and then guided. -
وَالَّذِىٓ أَخْرَجَ الْمَرْعَىٰ (4)
The One Who produced pasture. -
فَجَعَلَهُۥ غُثَآءً أَحْوَىٰ (5)
Then made it dry and dark. -
سَنُقْرِئُكَ فَلَا تَنسَىٰٓ (6)
We shall now make you read (O dear Prophet Mohammed - peace and blessings be upon him), so you will not forget. -
إِلَّا مَا شَآءَ اللَّهُ ۚ إِنَّهُۥ يَعْلَمُ الْجَهْرَ وَمَا يَخْفَىٰ (7)
Except what Allah wills; indeed He knows all the evident and all the concealed. -
وَنُيَسِّرُكَ لِلْيُسْرَىٰ (8)
And We shall create the means of ease for you. -
فَذَكِّرْ إِن نَّفَعَتِ الذِّكْرَىٰ (9)
Therefore advise, if advising is beneficial. -
سَيَذَّكَّرُ مَن يَخْشَىٰ (10)
Soon whoever fears will heed advice. -
وَيَتَجَنَّبُهَا الْأَشْقَى (11)
And the most wicked will stay away from it. -
الَّذِى يَصْلَى النَّارَ الْكُبْرَىٰ (12)
The one who will enter the biggest fire. -
ثُمَّ لَا يَمُوتُ فِيهَا وَلَا يَحْيَىٰ (13)
Then he neither dies in it, nor lives. -
قَدْ أَفْلَحَ مَن تَزَكَّىٰ (14)
Indeed successful is the one who became pure. -
وَذَكَرَ اسْمَ رَبِّهِۦ فَصَلَّىٰ (15)
And who mentioned the name of his Lord, then offered prayer. -
بَلْ تُؤْثِرُونَ الْحَيَوٰةَ الدُّنْيَا (16)
But rather you prefer the life of this world! -
وَالْاٰخِرَةُ خَيْرٌۭ وَأَبْقَىٰٓ (17)
Whereas the Hereafter is better and everlasting. -
إِنَّ هَٰذَا لَفِى الصُّحُفِ الْأُولَىٰ (18)
Indeed this is in the former scriptures. -
صُحُفِ إِبْرَٰهِيمَ وَمُوسَىٰ (19)
In the Books of Ibrahim and Moosa.