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Praise the Name of your Lord, the Exalted,
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Who created and measured,
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Who distributed and guided,
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Who raised the pastures
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and then turned them into rusty stubble!
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— [O Muhammad!] We will make you recite, and do not forget anything,
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except if God wills it otherwise — indeed, He knows the revealed and the concealed.
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We will make your way easy for you,
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and you keep reminding, reminding is useful indeed!
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The God-fearing will remember,
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but the most wretched one will turn away,
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the one who will burn in the greatest Fire
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where he shall neither die nor live!
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Successful shall be the one who purified himself,
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who glorified his Lord’s Name and prayed.
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Yet you prefer the life of this world,
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even though the Hereafter is better and more lasting!
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Verily, this is from the first Scriptures,
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the Scriptures of Abraham and Moses.