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87. Al-A'la - The Most High
| 1 | GLORIFY THE NAME of your Lord, most high, |
| 2 | Who creates and proportions, |
| 3 | Who determines and directs, |
| 4 | Who brings out the pastures |
| 5 | Then reduces them to rusty rubbish. |
| 6 | We shall make you recite (the Qur'an) so that you will not forget it, |
| 7 | Unless God may please. He knows the visible and knows what is hidden. |
| 8 | We shall take you slowly towards ease. |
| 9 | So remind them if reminder is profitable: |
| 10 | Those who fear will understand. |
| 11 | Only the wretch will turn aside, |
| 12 | Who will burn in the terrible Fire, |
| 13 | In which he will neither die nor live. |
| 14 | Surely he will succeed who grows in goodness, |
| 15 | And recites the name of his Lord and serves with devotion. |
| 16 | But no, you prefer the life of the world, |
| 17 | Though the life to come is better and abiding. |
| 18 | This is surely in the earlier Books, |
| 19 | The Books of Abraham and Moses. |