بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ bismillāhir raḥmānir raḥīm In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful.
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سَبِّحِ ٱسْمَ رَبِّكَ ٱلْأَعْلَى sabbiḥis-ma rabbikal-a`lā GLORIFY THE NAME of your Lord, most high,
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ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ فَسَوَّىٰ alladhī khalaqa fasawwā Who creates and proportions,
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وَٱلَّذِى قَدَّرَ فَهَدَىٰ wal ladhī qaddara fahadā Who determines and directs,
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وَٱلَّذِىٓ أَخْرَجَ ٱلْمَرْعَىٰ wal ladhī akhrajal mar`ā Who brings out the pastures
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فَجَعَلَهُۥ غُثَآءً أَحْوَىٰ faja`alahu ghuthā-an aḥwā Then reduces them to rusty rubbish.
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سَنُقْرِئُكَ فَلَا تَنسَىٰٓ sanuqri-uka falā tansā We shall make you recite (the Qur'an) so that you will not forget it,
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إِلَّا مَا شَآءَ ٱللَّهُ ۚ إِنَّهُۥ يَعْلَمُ ٱلْجَهْرَ وَمَا يَخْفَىٰ illā mā shā-allāh ۚ innahu ya`lamul jahra wa mā yakhfā Unless God may please. He knows the visible and knows what is hidden.
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وَنُيَسِّرُكَ لِلْيُسْرَىٰ wanuyassiruka lilyusrā We shall take you slowly towards ease.
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فَذَكِّرْ إِن نَّفَعَتِ ٱلذِّكْرَىٰ fadhakkir in nafa`atidh dhikrā So remind them if reminder is profitable:
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سَيَذَّكَّرُ مَن يَخْشَىٰ sayadhhakkaru man yakhshā Those who fear will understand.
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وَيَتَجَنَّبُهَا ٱلْأَشْقَى wayatajannabuhal-ashqā Only the wretch will turn aside,
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ٱلَّذِى يَصْلَى ٱلنَّارَ ٱلْكُبْرَىٰ alladhī yaṣlan nāral kubrā Who will burn in the terrible Fire,
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ثُمَّ لَا يَمُوتُ فِيهَا وَلَا يَحْيَىٰ thumma lā yamūtu fīhā walā yaḥyā In which he will neither die nor live.
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قَدْ أَفْلَحَ مَن تَزَكَّىٰ qad aflaḥa man tazakkā Surely he will succeed who grows in goodness,
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وَذَكَرَ ٱسْمَ رَبِّهِۦ فَصَلَّىٰ wadhakaras-ma rabbihi faṣallā And recites the name of his Lord and serves with devotion.
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بَلْ تُؤْثِرُونَ ٱلْحَيَوٰةَ ٱلدُّنْيَا bal tu-thirūnal ḥayātad dunyā But no, you prefer the life of the world,
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وَٱلْـَٔاخِرَةُ خَيْرٌ وَأَبْقَىٰٓ wal-ākhiratu khayrun wa-abqā Though the life to come is better and abiding.
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إِنَّ هَـٰذَا لَفِى ٱلصُّحُفِ ٱلْأُولَىٰ inna hādhā lafiṣ ṣuḥufil-ūlā This is surely in the earlier Books,
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صُحُفِ إِبْرَٰهِيمَ وَمُوسَىٰ ṣuḥufi ibrāhīma wa mūsā The Books of Abraham and Moses.
