English - Chapter 87 - Al-Ala

GLORIFY THE NAME of your Lord, most high

Who creates and proportions

Who determines and directs

Who brings out the pastures

Then reduces them to rusty rubbish

We shall make you recite (the Qur'an) so that you will not forget it

Unless God may please. He knows the visible and knows what is hidden

We shall take you slowly towards ease

So remind them if reminder is profitable

Those who fear will understand

Only the wretch will turn aside

Who will burn in the terrible Fire

In which he will neither die nor live

Surely he will succeed who grows in goodness

And recites the name of his Lord and serves with devotion

But no, you prefer the life of the world

Though the life to come is better and abiding

This is surely in the earlier Books

The Books of Abraham and Moses