Extol the name of your Lord, the Highest,
who has created and given proportion,
who has directed and guided,
who has brought forth pasture
and turned it into brown straw.
We will make you recite so you will not forget
except what God wills. For God knows the apparent and the concealed.
And We ease you into what is most easy:
so remind, if reminder avails.
The God-fearing will be reminded,
but the most wretched will tum aside,
those who enter the greatest fire,
where they neither die nor live.
Happy are those who have purified themselves
and remember the name of their Lord and pray.
But you prefer the life of the world,
though the Hereafter is better and more lasting.
This is, in fact, in the books of the ancients,
the books of Abraham and Moses.