The Most High

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ سَبِّحِ ٱسْمَ رَبِّكَ ٱلْأَعْلَى

Transliteration: Sabbihisma Rabbikal A'laa

Exalt the name of your Lord, the Most High,

ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ فَسَوَّىٰ

Transliteration: Allazee khalaqa fasawwaa

Who created and proportioned

وَٱلَّذِى قَدَّرَ فَهَدَىٰ

Transliteration: Wallazee qaddara fahadaa

And who destined and [then] guided

وَٱلَّذِىٓ أَخْرَجَ ٱلْمَرْعَىٰ

Transliteration: Wallazeee akhrajal mar'aa

And who brings out the pasture

فَجَعَلَهُۥ غُثَآءً أَحْوَىٰ

Transliteration: Faja'alahoo ghusaaa'an ahwaa

And [then] makes it black stubble.

سَنُقْرِئُكَ فَلَا تَنسَىٰٓ

Transliteration: Sanuqri'uka falaa tansaaa

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

إِلَّا مَا شَآءَ ٱللَّهُ ۚ إِنَّهُۥ يَعْلَمُ ٱلْجَهْرَ وَمَا يَخْفَىٰ

Transliteration: Illaa maa shaaa'al laah; innahoo ya'lamul jahra wa maa yakhfaa

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

وَنُيَسِّرُكَ لِلْيُسْرَىٰ

Transliteration: Wa nu-yassiruka lilyusraa

And We will ease you toward ease.

فَذَكِّرْ إِن نَّفَعَتِ ٱلذِّكْرَىٰ

Transliteration: Fazakkir in nafa'atizzikraa

So remind, if the reminder should benefit;

سَيَذَّكَّرُ مَن يَخْشَىٰ

Transliteration: Sa yazzakkaru maiyakhshaa

He who fears [Allah] will be reminded.

وَيَتَجَنَّبُهَا ٱلْأَشْقَى

Transliteration: Wa yatajannabuhal ashqaa

But the wretched one will avoid it -

ٱلَّذِى يَصْلَى ٱلنَّارَ ٱلْكُبْرَىٰ

Transliteration: Allazee yaslan Naaral kubraa

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

ثُمَّ لَا يَمُوتُ فِيهَا وَلَا يَحْيَىٰ

Transliteration: Summa laa yamootu feehaa wa laa yahyaa

Neither dying therein nor living.

قَدْ أَفْلَحَ مَن تَزَكَّىٰ

Transliteration: Qad aflaha man tazakkaa

He has certainly succeeded who purifies himself

وَذَكَرَ ٱسْمَ رَبِّهِۦ فَصَلَّىٰ

Transliteration: Wa zakaras ma Rabbihee fasallaa

And mentions the name of his Lord and prays.

بَلْ تُؤْثِرُونَ ٱلْحَيَوٰةَ ٱلدُّنْيَا

Transliteration: Bal tu'siroonal hayaatad dunyaa

But you prefer the worldly life,

وَٱلْءَاخِرَةُ خَيْرٌۭ وَأَبْقَىٰٓ

Transliteration: Wal Aakhiratu khairunw wa abqaa

While the Hereafter is better and more enduring.

إِنَّ هَٰذَا لَفِى ٱلصُّحُفِ ٱلْأُولَىٰ

Transliteration: Inna haazaa lafis suhu fil oolaa

Indeed, this is in the former scriptures,

صُحُفِ إِبْرَٰهِيمَ وَمُوسَىٰ

Transliteration: Suhufi Ibraaheema wa Moosaa

The scriptures of Abraham and Moses.