Sabbihi isma rabbika alaAAla
Exalt the name of your Lord, the Most High,
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Allathee khalaqa fasawwa
Who created and proportioned
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Waallathee qaddara fahada
And who destined and [then] guided
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Waallathee akhraja almarAAa
And who brings out the pasture
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FajaAAalahu ghuthaan ahwa
And [then] makes it black stubble.
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Sanuqrioka fala tansa
We will make you recite, [O Muhammad], and you will not forget,
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Illa ma shaa Allahu innahu yaAAlamu aljahra wama yakhfa
Except what Allah should will. Indeed, He knows what is declared and what is hidden.
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Wanuyassiruka lilyusra
And We will ease you toward ease.
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Fathakkir in nafaAAati alththikra
So remind, if the reminder should benefit;
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Sayaththakkaru man yakhsha
He who fears [Allah] will be reminded.
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Wayatajannabuha alashqa
But the wretched one will avoid it -
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Allathee yasla alnnara alkubra
[He] who will [enter and] burn in the greatest Fire,
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Thumma la yamootu feeha wala yahya
Neither dying therein nor living.
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Qad aflaha man tazakka
He has certainly succeeded who purifies himself
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Wathakara isma rabbihi fasalla
And mentions the name of his Lord and prays.
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Bal tuthiroona alhayata alddunya
But you prefer the worldly life,
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Waalakhiratu khayrun waabqa
While the Hereafter is better and more enduring.
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Inna hatha lafee alssuhufi aloola
Indeed, this is in the former scriptures,
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Suhufi ibraheema wamoosa
The scriptures of Abraham and Moses.
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