Surah Al-A'la: Thematic English Translation (Mustafa Çevik)

O human being! Never put out of your mind the exaltedness of your Lord, who by His knowledge and power created the blessings that you see, comprehend, and benefit from, and never forget that you have responsibilities toward Him.

Allah endowed all created beings with forms and qualities suited to the purpose of their creation, and directed them to the way that would fulfill that purpose.

O people! Just as Allah brings forth green plants from the earth, then turns them into bone-dry debris, and, when the time comes, revives them and brings them back to life, so too, after you have died and mingled with the soil, He will raise you to life again and call you to account for your stance toward His call during your worldly life.

O Prophet! Through the Quran We will teach you the reason for your creation and the knowledge of how to live in keeping with it, and you will not forget what We teach you unless We will to make you forget it!

Allah certainly knows what is within you and what you bring into the open.

O Prophet! Convey to people that the way to truth, justice, peace, and happiness runs through living in keeping with an Allah-centered life. We will help you in your efforts in this and make your task easy. As for you, warn those who will take heed; whether to reflect and take heed, or to be ungrateful and turn away, is up to them.

Those of untainted reason who seek the truth and wish to live by it and to give thanks for the blessings Allah has given take heed. But those who have conditioned themselves to deny the truth turn away from the counsel and distance themselves from it. In the Hereafter, in the fire of Hell that they deserve, such people are neither fully put to death nor fully kept alive.

As for those who, in their worldly lives, free themselves from shirk (associating partners with Allah) and disbelief, take Allah alone as their Lord and God, and fulfill their responsibilities, they attain happiness, peace, and security in this world and the Hereafter.

But most people prefer the short, passing life of this world to the life of Paradise in the Hereafter, the home of lasting happiness. Yet it is Paradise that is better.

This call now being made to you was also in the pages sent down to past peoples and in the pages revealed to Abraham and Moses.