Surah Ala
Contents
Extol the name of your Lord, the Highest, [87:1]
who has created and regulated [87:2]
and who has destined and guided [87:3]
and who has produced green pasture [87:4]
and made it brown waste. [87:5]
We will have you recite so you won’t forget [87:6]
except what God wills, for God knows what is manifest and what is concealed. [87:7]
And We will ease you into the easiest way: [87:8]
so advise, if advice avails. [87:9]
Those who fear God will take a lesson, [87:10]
while the most wretched will turn away— [87:11]
those who will roast in the greatest fire [87:12]
where they will neither die nor live. [87:13]
Happy are those who have purified themselves [87:14]
and remember the name of their Lord and pray. [87:15]
But you prefer the life of the world [87:16]
though the hereafter is better and more lasting. [87:17]
This is, indeed, in the earlier books, [87:18]
in the books of Abraham and Moses. [87:19]