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