Sūrah 87 · Makkah · 19 āyāt

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Al-Aʿlā

The Most High

الأعلى

Summary
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Recited in prayer

Recited with al-Ghāshiyah at Jumuʿah and the two ʿĪd prayers.

Muslim 878 (ṣaḥīḥ)

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Exalt the name of your Lord, the Most High,

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Who created and proportioned

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And who destined and [then] guided

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And who brings out the pasture

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And [then] makes it black stubble.

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

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

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And We will ease you toward ease.

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So remind, if the reminder should benefit;

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He who fears [Allāh] will be reminded.

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But the wretched one will avoid it

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

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Neither dying therein nor living.

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He has certainly succeeded who purifies himself

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And mentions the name of his Lord and prays.

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But you prefer the worldly life,

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While the Hereafter is better and more enduring.

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Indeed, this is in the former scriptures,

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The scriptures of Abraham and Moses.

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