GLORIFY THE NAME of your Lord, most high
Who creates and proportions
Who determines and directs
Who brings out the pasture
Then reduces them to rusty rubbish
We shall make you recite (the Qur'an) so that you will not forget it
Unless God may please. He knows the visible and knows what is hidden
We shall take you slowly towards ease
So remind them if reminder is profitable
Those who fear will understand
Only the wretch will turn aside
Who will burn in the terrible Fire
In which he will neither die nor live
Surely he will succeed who grows in goodness
And recites the name of his Lord and serves with devotion
But no, you prefer the life of the world
Though the life to come is better and abiding
This is surely in the earlier Books
The Books of Abraham and Moses