English - Chapter 87 - Al-Ala

PRAISE THE Name of your Lord, the Most High

who created all things and gave them due proportion

who has ordained their destinies and guided them

who brings forth the green pasture

then turns it to withered grass

We shall make you read, so that you shall never forget

except as God pleases. He has knowledge of the manifest, and the hidden

We shall guide you to the smoothest path

Therefore admonish, if admonishment will avail

He that fears God will pay heed

but the wretched sinner will flout it

He shall burn in the gigantic Fire

Happy shall be he that keeps himself pure

that remembers the name of his Lord and prays

Yet you¹ prefer the life of this world

although the life to come is better and more lasting

This is surely set down in earlier Scriptures

the Scriptures of Abraham and Moses