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1.  *     Praise/glorify your Lord's name the highest/mightiest.
 
2.  *     Who created, so He straightened.
 
3.  *     And who predestined/evaluated, so He guided.
 
4.  *     And who brought out/made (to) emerge the pasture.
 
5.  *     So He made/created it rotten/spoiled (thin and dry) green/red with blackness.
 
6.  *     We will make you read, so do not forget.
 
7.  *     Except what God willed/wanted/intended, that He truly knows the declared/publicized and what hides.
 
8.  *     And We ease you to the ease/prosperity.
 
9.  *     So remind if the remembrance/reminder benefited.
 
10.  *     Who fears will remember/praise/glorify.
 
11.  *     And the most miserable/unhappy avoids/distances himself from it.
 
12.  *     Who roasts/suffers the fire, the greatest.
 
13.  *     Then he does not die in it and nor live.
 
14.  *     Who purified/corrected had succeeded/won.
 
15.  *     And mentioned/remembered his Lord's name, so he prayed.
 
16.  *     But you prefer/choose the life the present/worldly life.
 
17.  *     And the end (other life is) better and more lasting (everlasting).
 
18.  *     That truly that (is) in (E) the written pages (Books/Scriptures) the first/beginning.
 
19.  *     Abraham's and Moses' written pages (Books/Scriptures).