al-A‘lā

Celebrate the Name of your Lord, the Most Exalted,

— Ali Quli Qarai

who created and proportioned,

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who determined and guided,

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who brought forth the pasture

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and then turned it into a black scum.

— Ali Quli Qarai

We shall have you recite [the Quran], then you will not forget [any of it]

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except what Allah may wish. Indeed, He knows the open and what is hidden.

— Ali Quli Qarai

And We shall ease you into facility.

— Ali Quli Qarai

So admonish, for admonition is indeed beneficial:

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he who fears [God] will take admonition,

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and the most wretched will shun it

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—he who will enter the Great Fire,

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then he will neither live in it, nor die.

— Ali Quli Qarai

‘Felicitous is he who purifies himself,

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celebrates the Name of his Lord, and prays.

— Ali Quli Qarai

But you prefer the life of this world,

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while the Hereafter is better and more lasting.’

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This is indeed in the former scriptures,

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the scriptures of Abraham and Moses.

— Ali Quli Qarai