| Sabbiĥi Asma Rabbika Al-'A`lá | Glorify the Name of your Lord, the Most High, (Al-A'la 87:1) |
| Al-Ladhī Khalaqa Fasawwá | Who has created (everything), and then proportioned it; (Al-A'la 87:2) |
| Wa Al-Ladhī Qaddara Fahadá | And Who has measured (preordainments for each and everything even to be blessed or wretched); then guided (i.e. showed mankind the right as well as wrong paths, and guided the animals to pasture); (Al-A'la 87:3) |
| Wa Al-Ladhī 'Akhraja Al-Mar`á | And Who brings out the pasturage, (Al-A'la 87:4) |
| Faja`alahu Ghuthā'an 'Aĥwá | And then makes it dark stubble. (Al-A'la 87:5) |
| Sanuqri'uka Falā Tansá | We shall make you to recite (the Qur'ān), so you (O Muhammad (Peace be upon him)) shall not forget (it), (Al-A'la 87:6) |
| 'Illā Mā Shā'a Al-Lahu 'Innahu Ya`lamu Al-Jahra Wa Mā Yakhfá | Except what Allāh, may will, He knows what is apparent and what is hidden. (Al-A'la 87:7) |
| Wa Nuyassiruka Lilyusrá | And We shall make easy for you (O Muhammad (Peace be upon him)) the easy way (i.e. the doing of righteous deeds). (Al-A'la 87:8) |
| Fadhakkir 'In Nafa`ati Adh-Dhikrá | Therefore remind (men) in case the reminder profits (them). (Al-A'la 87:9) |
| Sayadhdhakkaru Man Yakhshá | The reminder will be received by him who fears (Allāh), (Al-A'la 87:10) |
| Wa Yatajannabuhā Al-'Ashqá | But it will be avoided by the wretched, (Al-A'la 87:11) |
| Al-Ladhī Yaşlá An-Nāra Al-Kubrá | Who will enter the great Fire and made to taste its burning, (Al-A'la 87:12) |
| Thumma Lā Yamūtu Fīhā Wa Lā Yaĥyā | Wherein he will neither die (to be in rest) nor live (a good living). (Al-A'la 87:13) |
| Qad 'Aflaĥa Man Tazakká | Indeed whosoever purifies himself (by avoiding polytheism and accepting Islāmic Monotheism) shall achieve success, (Al-A'la 87:14) |
| Wa Dhakara Asma Rabbihi Faşallá | And remembers (glorifies) the Name of his Lord (worships none but Allāh), and prays (five compulsory prayers and Nawāfil additional prayers). (Al-A'la 87:15) |
| Bal Tu'uthirūna Al-Ĥayāata Ad-Dunyā | Nay, you prefer the life of this world; (Al-A'la 87:16) |
| Wa Al-'Ākhiratu Khayrun Wa 'Abqá | Although the Hereafter is better and more lasting. (Al-A'la 87:17) |
| 'Inna Hādhā Lafī Aş-Şuĥufi Al-'Ūlá | Verily! This is in the former Scriptures, (Al-A'la 87:18) |
| Şuĥufi 'Ibrāhīma Wa Mūsá | The Scriptures of Ibrāhim (Abraham) and Mûsa (Moses). (Al-A'la 87:19) |