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shakir
 
1.  *     Glorify the name of your Lord, the Most High,
 
2.  *     Who creates, then makes complete,
 
3.  *     And Who makes (things) according to a measure, then guides (them to their goal),
 
4.  *     And Who brings forth herbage,
 
5.  *     Then makes it dried up, dust-colored.
 
6.  *     We will make you recite so you shall not forget,
 
7.  *     Except what Allah pleases, surely He knows the manifest, and what is hidden.
 
8.  *     And We will make your way smooth to a state of ease.
 
9.  *     Therefore do remind, surely reminding does profit.
 
10.  *     He who fears will mind,
 
11.  *     And the most unfortunate one will avoid it,
 
12.  *     Who shall enter the great fire;
 
13.  *     Then therein he shall neither live nor die.
 
14.  *     He indeed shall be successful who purifies himself,
 
15.  *     And magnifies the name of his Lord and prays.
 
16.  *     Nay! you prefer the life of this world,
 
17.  *     While the hereafter is better and more lasting.
 
18.  *     Most surely this is in the earlier scriptures,
 
19.  *     The scriptures of Ibrahim and Musa.