87. Sura al-Ala with Urdu Translation

Sura 87. al-Ala (the Most High):

In the Name of Allah, Most Compassionate, Ever-Merciful.

1. Glorify the Name of your Lord, the Most High,

2. He Who has created (everything in the Universe) and then (fulfilling all requisites) equipoised it to its exact proportion,

3. And He Who has determined law, (phenomena for every creation) and guided it to its way (of sustaining and functioning according to its respective system),

4. And He Who has brought forth green pasture (from the earth),

5. And then made it blackened stubble.

6. (O Esteemed Beloved!) We shall teach you (in a way) that nothing shall you (ever) forget,

7. Except what Allah wills. Indeed He knows all, manifest as well as hidden (i.e. open to human perception as well as veiled from it and the audible and inaudible both).

8. We shall (also) facilitate you (to put into practice this) easy (Law).

9. So keep admonishing, provided admonition benefits (the listeners).

10. But only he who fears (Allah) will accept the admonition.

11. And the wretched one will avoid and evade it,

12. He who will enter the greatest Fire (on the Day of Judgment).

13. Then he will neither die nor live in it.

14. Indeed only he who is purified (from the afflictions of his ill-commanding self and pollution of sins) will triumph,

15. The one who remembers the Name of his Lord and offers Prayers (regularly and abundantly).

16. Yet you go for the (pleasures of) the worldly life (instead of turning towards Allah),

17. Whereas (the relish for and comfort of) the Hereafter is preferable and everlasting.

18. Indeed this (enlightenment) is (also contained) in earlier scriptures,

19. The scriptures of Ibrahim (Abraham) and Musa (Moses).