_In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful._
Magnify the name of thy LORD, THE MOST HIGH,
Who created, and fashioned,
And decreed, and guided,
Who bringeth forth the pasturage,
Then turneth it dry and brown.
We will make thee cry aloud, and thou shalt not forget,
Except what God pleaseth; verily He knoweth the plain and the
hidden.
And we will speed thee to ease.
Admonish, therefore,--verily admonishing profiteth,--
Whoso feareth God will mind;
And there will turn away from it only the wretch
Who shall broil upon the mighty fire;
And then shall neither die therein, nor live.
Happy is he who purifieth himself,
And remembereth the name of his Lord, and prayeth.
But ye prefer the life of this world,
Though the life to come is better and more enduring.
Truly this is in the books of eld,
The books of Abraham and Moses.
(lxxxvii.)