مَرفوعَةٍ مُطَهَّرَةٍ

Exalted and sanctified.

بِأَيدي سَفَرَةٍ

By the hands of scribes.

كِرامٍ بَرَرَةٍ

Noble and virtuous.

قُتِلَ الإِنسانُ ما أَكفَرَهُ

Perish man! How ungrateful he is!

مِن أَيِّ شَيءٍ خَلَقَهُ

From what did He create him?

ثُمَّ السَّبيلَ يَسَّرَهُ

Then He smoothed the path for him.

ثُمَّ أَماتَهُ فَأَقبَرَهُ

Then He causes him to die, and then He buries him.

ثُمَّ إِذا شاءَ أَنشَرَهُ

Then, at His will, He will resurrect him.

كَلّا لَمّا يَقضِ ما أَمَرَهُ

Yet, he didn’t fulfill what He commanded him.

فَليَنظُرِ الإِنسانُ إِلىٰ طَعامِهِ

Let man contemplate his food.