EXTOL the limitless glory of thy Sustainer's name:[the glory of] the Al-Highest, who creates [every thing], and thereupon forms it in accordance with with what it is meant to be,* and who determines the nature [of all that exists],* and thereupon guides it [towards its fulfilment], and who brings forth herbage, and thereupon causes it to decay into rust-brown stubble!* WE SHALL teach thee, and thou wilt not forget [aught of what thou art taught], save what God may will [thee to forget]* - for, verily, He [alone] knows all that is open to [man's] perception as well as all that is hidden [from it]** -: and [thus] shall We make easy for thee the path towards [ultimate] ease.* REMIND, THEN, [others of the truth, regardless of] whether this reminding [would seem to] be of use [or not]:* in mind will keep it he who stands in awe [of God], but aloof from it will remain that most hapless wretch - he who [in the life to come] shall have to endure the great fire wherein he will neither die nor remain alive.* To happiness [in the life to come] will indeed attain he who attains to purity [in this world], and remembers his Sustainer's name, and prays [unto Him]. But nay, [O men,] you prefer the life of this world, although the life to come is better and more enduring. Verily, [all] this has indeed been [said] in the earlier revelations - the revelations of Abraham and Moses.*