The Most High (Al-Alâ)

In the name of Allah, Gracious, Merciful.

¹Glorify the name of your guardian Lord, most high

²Who has created and further given order and proportion;

³Who has ordained laws, and granted guidance;

⁴And who brings out the pasture.

⁵And then does make it swarthy stubble.

⁶By degrees shall We teach you to declare so you shall not forget¹

⁷Except as Allah wills: For He knows what is manifest and what is hidden.

⁸And We will make it easy for you the simple path.

⁹Therefore give admonition in case the admonition profits.

¹⁰The admonition will be received by those who fear Allah:

¹¹But it will be avoided by those most unfortunate ones.

¹²Who will enter the great fire

¹³In which they will then neither die nor live.

¹⁴But those will prosper who purify themselves.

¹⁵And glorify the name of their Lord in prayer.

¹⁶No, you prefer the life of this world;

¹⁷But the hereafter is better and more enduring.

¹⁸And this is in the books of the earliest revelations.

¹⁹The books of Abraham and Moses.²

Bismillahi Rahmani Rahim

¹Sabihisma rabikal ala

²Alazi halaqa la sawa

³Walazi qadara fa hada

⁴Wal lazi akhrajal mara

⁵Fa jaalahu gasa an ahwa

⁶Sanuqri ula fala tansa

⁷Ila ma sya allah innahu yalamul jahra wa ma yakhfa

⁸Wa nuyasiruka lil yusra

⁹Fazakir innafaatiz zikra

¹⁰Sayaz zakaru mayasa

¹¹Wa yatajan nabuhal asqa

¹²Alazi yaslan naral kubra

¹³Summa la yamutu fiha wa la yahya

¹⁴Qad aflaha man tazaka

¹⁵Wa zakarasma rabihi fasala

¹⁶Bal tusirunal hayatad dunya

¹⁷Wal akhiratu hairu wa abqa

¹⁸Inna haza lafis suhufil ula

¹⁹Suhufi Ibrahima wa Musa

1. For forgotten passages of the Qur’an, please refer to Qur’an 4:82.

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2. One of the six articles of faith is “Belief in the Scriptures”. The belief further teaches that there are 104 Books revealed by God to mankind. Of these 104 Books, Adam brought 10, Seth brought 50, Enoch brought 30 and Abraham brought 10. These however are all lost and only four remain. These four are the Torah of Moses, the Zabura of David, the Injil of Jesus and the Qur’an of Muhammad. It is further claimed that the Qur’an is the Superior of the remaining four and whose contents must be believed above all the other Scriptures. What the Qur’an does not distinguish is that the Psalms were not all the work of David: 73 are ascribed to David, 12 were written by Asaph, 12 by the sons of Korah, two by Solomon, one by Moses, one by Ethan and 49 are by anonymous authors. So to ascribe the authorship of the Psalms to solely to David is totally wrong.