Surah 87 · Meccan · 19 verses

Al-A'laa

The Most High

سُورَةُ الأَعۡلَىٰ

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87:1

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87:1
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بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ سَبِّحِ ٱسْمَ رَبِّكَ ٱلْأَعْلَى

Exalt the name of your Lord, the Most High,

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87:2
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ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ فَسَوَّىٰ

Who created and proportioned

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87:3
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وَٱلَّذِى قَدَّرَ فَهَدَىٰ

And who destined and [then] guided

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87:4
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وَٱلَّذِىٓ أَخْرَجَ ٱلْمَرْعَىٰ

And who brings out the pasture

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87:5
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فَجَعَلَهُۥ غُثَآءً أَحْوَىٰ

And [then] makes it black stubble.

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87:6
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سَنُقْرِئُكَ فَلَا تَنسَىٰٓ

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

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87:7
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إِلَّا مَا شَآءَ ٱللَّهُ ۚ إِنَّهُۥ يَعْلَمُ ٱلْجَهْرَ وَمَا يَخْفَىٰ

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

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87:8
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وَنُيَسِّرُكَ لِلْيُسْرَىٰ

And We will ease you toward ease.

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87:9
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فَذَكِّرْ إِن نَّفَعَتِ ٱلذِّكْرَىٰ

So remind, if the reminder should benefit;

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87:10
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سَيَذَّكَّرُ مَن يَخْشَىٰ

He who fears [Allah] will be reminded.

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87:11
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وَيَتَجَنَّبُهَا ٱلْأَشْقَى

But the wretched one will avoid it -

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87:12
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ٱلَّذِى يَصْلَى ٱلنَّارَ ٱلْكُبْرَىٰ

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

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87:13
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ثُمَّ لَا يَمُوتُ فِيهَا وَلَا يَحْيَىٰ

Neither dying therein nor living.

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87:14
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قَدْ أَفْلَحَ مَن تَزَكَّىٰ

He has certainly succeeded who purifies himself

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87:15
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وَذَكَرَ ٱسْمَ رَبِّهِۦ فَصَلَّىٰ

And mentions the name of his Lord and prays.

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87:16
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بَلْ تُؤْثِرُونَ ٱلْحَيَوٰةَ ٱلدُّنْيَا

But you prefer the worldly life,

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87:17
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وَٱلْءَاخِرَةُ خَيْرٌۭ وَأَبْقَىٰٓ

While the Hereafter is better and more enduring.

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87:18
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إِنَّ هَٰذَا لَفِى ٱلصُّحُفِ ٱلْأُولَىٰ

Indeed, this is in the former scriptures,

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87:19
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صُحُفِ إِبْرَٰهِيمَ وَمُوسَىٰ

The scriptures of Abraham and Moses.

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