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| 1. * | Magnify the Name of thy Lord the Most High |
| 2. * | who created and shaped, |
| 3. * | who determined and guided, |
| 4. * | who brought forth the pasturage |
| 5. * | then made it a blackening wrack. |
| 6. * | We shall make thee recite, to forget not |
| 7. * | save what God wills; surely He knows what is spoken aloud and what is hidden. |
| 8. * | We shall ease thee unto the Easing. |
| 9. * | Therefore remind, if the Reminder profits, |
| 10. * | and he who fears shall remember, |
| 11. * | but the most wretched shall flout it, |
| 12. * | even he who shall roast in the Great Fire, |
| 13. * | then he shall neither die therein, nor live. |
| 14. * | Prosperous is he who has cleansed himself, |
| 15. * | and mentions the Name of his Lord, and prays. |
| 16. * | Nay, but you prefer the present life; |
| 17. * | and the world to come is better, and more enduring. |
| 18. * | Surely this is in the ancient scrolls, |
| 19. * | the scrolls of Abraham and Moses. |