Al-Aʿlā
الأعلى"The Most High"
- Number
- 87 of 114
- Verses
- 19
- Revealed
- Makkah
Glorify — even in the briefest surah, glorify.
24 passages reference this surah
From 11 books in our audiobook library. Each passage is also spoken aloud in the app.
al-Fawāʾid — Points of Benefit, Volume Two
Ibn al-Qayyim · Timeless Classics
-
"And God Most High said: God makes firm those who believe with the firm word in the life of this world and in the Hereafter, and God leads astray the wrongdoers, and God does what He wills. And God Most High said: What is the matter with you, that you are two parties concerning the hypocrites, when God has cast them back for what they earned? And God Most High said: They said, our hearts are wrapped up."
-
"And when you look upon existing things with their eye, then all that being contains is lovely. They argued from His words, Most High, "who made beautiful everything He created," and His words, "the handiwork of God, who has perfected everything," and His words, "you see no disharmony in the creation of the All-Merciful." For them the knower is the one who openly declares beauty absolute and sees nothing ugly in existence."
-
"How Deeds of Heart and Limb Become the Cause of Guidance the heavens and the earth and all that lies between them. Their opposite is falsehood and idle play, from which He is exalted and sanctified, and which is the notion His enemies hold about Him. God Most High said: "We did not create the heavens and the earth and what is between them in falsehood; that is the notion of those who disbelieve." And He said:"
Abu Bakr al-Siddiq
Ibn Kathir · Timeless Classics
-
"While the Muslims were there in the night, al-Ala heard loud voices rising from the army of the apostates, and he said: Who is the man who will bring us word of these people? Abd Allah ibn Hadhf rose and went in among them, and found them drunk, senseless with wine. He returned and informed him, and al-Ala mounted at once with the army behind him, and they fell upon them and slew them in a great slaughter; few of them escaped."
-
"until he was slain along with him on the day of Aqraba — and no mercy be upon him. The Apostasy of the People of Bahrain and Their Return to Islam Their story is this: the Messenger of God, God's peace and blessings be upon him, had sent al-Ala ibn al-Hadrami to its king, al-Mundhir ibn Sawa al-Abdi, who accepted Islam at his hands, and al-Ala established Islam and justice among them."
-
"Al-Ala honoured them, welcomed them warmly, and treated them well. Al-Ala was among the chief Companions, a scholar and a devout worshipper whose prayers were answered. It happened to him in this campaign that he halted at a camping place, and the men had scarcely settled upon the ground when the camels bolted, carrying off the army's provisions, their tents and their water."
The Destroyed Nations & Yunus
Ibn Kathir · Stories of the Prophets
-
"There are two views on this. The more evident, from the flow of the verse, is: yes. And God knows best, for God Most High said: "When they believed" — and God Most High also said: "And We sent him to a hundred thousand, or more. And they believed, so We granted them enjoyment for a time." This enjoyment for a time does not rule out that something else accompanied it, namely the lifting of the punishment of the Hereafter."
-
"So We answered him and delivered him from distress, and thus do We deliver the believers." And God Most High said in Surat al-Saffat: "And truly Yunus was among the messengers. When he fled to the laden ship, and cast lots and was among the losers, the fish swallowed him while he was blameworthy. Had he not been among those who glorify God, he would have remained in its belly until the Day they are raised."
-
"Qatada said: No, by God, God did not reproach his people after they killed him — "It was but a single cry, and at once they were extinguished." And the words of God Most High: "And We did not send down upon his people after him any host from heaven, nor were We wont to send down" — that is, We had no need, in taking vengeance upon them, to send down a host from"
Al-ʿAqīda al-Ṭaḥāwiyya
Abū Jaʿfar al-Ṭaḥāwī · Timeless Classics
-
"And the covenant which Allah, Most High, took from Adam and his progeny is a reality. And Allah, Most High, has known from eternity, without beginning, the number of those who will enter Paradise and the number of those who will enter the Fire, once and for all, so that number is neither increased nor decreased."
-
"And good and evil are decreed for the servants. And the capacity by which the act necessarily occurs, being of the nature of tawfiq, which it is not permissible to describe a created being as possessing, is together with the act. As for capacity in the sense of soundness, ability, and capability, and soundness of the faculties, that is before the act, and it is to this that address is attached. And this is as Allah Most High said: Allah tasketh not a soul beyond its scope."
-
"And we consider it correct to pray behind every righteous and sinful person from among the people of the qibla, and to pray over any of them who has died. And we do not consign any of them to Paradise or the Fire, nor do we bear witness against them of disbelief, polytheism, or hypocrisy, so long as nothing of that has appeared from them, and we leave their inward states to Allah Most High."
Book 4: The Book of Prayer
Imam al-Ghazali · Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din
-
"However, if this is not done, it is still acceptable. It is prohibited to rest the forearms on the ground like a dog. One should say "Subhana Rabbiyal A'la" [Glory is to my Lord, the Most High] three times."
al-Akhlāq wa'l-Siyar — Character and Conduct
Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba · Timeless Classics
-
"And the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace — he who is the exemplar in every good, whose character God Most High praised, and in whom God Most High gathered the scattered virtues —"
-
"and then the sun and the wind dry up what is left of them. Such is the wealth that is not spent in a good cause. The man of intellect is not gladdened by a quality in which a beast of prey, or a head of cattle, or an inanimate thing surpasses him; he is gladdened only by his advancement in the virtue by which God Most High set him apart from the beasts of prey, the cattle, and inanimate things — namely the discernment in which he shares with the angels."
-
"and God Most High suffices. And bestow the surplus of your wealth and your standing upon whoever asks you, or does not ask you, and to everyone who needs you and whom you can benefit, even if they do not approach you with desire. Do not let yourself expect a return from anyone other than your Lord, Almighty, and build only on the assumption that those you have done good to will be the first to harm you and strive against you,"
Volume One
Ibn al-Qayyim · Madārij al-Sālikīn
-
"اللّٰه, the Most High, does not forgive those who associate others with Him, as He says, "Then those who disbelieve equate [others] with their Lord." The most correct of the two opinions is that they equate others with Him in worship, allegiance, and love, as in another verse, "By اللّٰه, we were indeed in manifest error when we equated you with the Lord of the Worlds," and as in the verse from سُورَة البَقَرَة, "And of the people are some who take other than اللّٰه as equals [to Him]."
-
"اللّٰه, the Most High, says about the predecessors of these polytheists: "And those who take protectors besides Him [say], 'We only worship them that they may bring us nearer to اللّٰه in position.' Indeed, اللّٰه will judge between them concerning that over which they differ." Then He testified against them for their disbelief and falsehood, stating that He does not guide them: "Indeed, اللّٰه does not guide one who is a liar and a disbeliever.""
al-Fawāʾid — Points of Benefit, Volume One
Ibn al-Qayyim · Timeless Classics
-
"A noble principle: if you wish to profit from the Qur'an, gather your heart when you recite it and when you listen to it. Lend your ear, and be present with the presence of one whom He who spoke it, glory be to Him, is addressing — from Him to him; for it is an address from Him to you upon the tongue of His Messenger. God Most High has said: Surely in that is a reminder for whoever has a heart, or gives ear while he is present as a witness."
-
"His saying, "for whoever has a heart," is the receptive place; and what is meant by it is the living heart that understands from God, as He Most High said: "It is only a reminder and a clear Qur'an, to warn whoever is alive" — that is, alive of heart. And His saying, "or lends an ear," means he turns his hearing and inclines the faculty of his ear toward what is said to him; and this is the condition for being affected by the speech."
-
"God Most High said: "For those who do not believe in the Hereafter is the likeness of evil, and to God belongs the highest likeness, and He is the Mighty, the Wise." And He said: And He it is who originates creation, then repeats it, and that is easier for Him. His is the loftiest likeness in the heavens and the earth, and He is the Almighty, the All-Wise. And the Exalted said, There is nothing like unto Him."
Book 29: Condemnation of Pride and Conceit
Imam al-Ghazali · Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din
-
"the tyrant, and one who is evil in possession will not enter Paradise." The shared hadith about Paradise and Hellfire arguing is well-known, as narrated by Abu Huraira. The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Wretched is the servant who becomes tyrannical and assaults, forgetting the Most High, Compeller."
Book 9: The Mysteries of Supplication
Imam al-Ghazali · Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din
-
"Salamah ibn al-Akwa' said: "I never heard the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, begin a supplication without first saying, 'Glory be to my Lord, the Most High, the Bestower. Abu Sulayman al-Darani, may Allah have mercy on him, advised that whoever wants to ask Allah for a need should begin with prayers upon the Prophet,"
Futūḥ al-Ghayb — Revelations of the Unseen
Shaykh Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Timeless Classics
-
"Then you will be established in the station of those who have gone before, the truthful, the martyrs, and the righteous - meaning by this, closeness to the Most High - to witness the station of those who preceded you to the Sovereign and drew near, finding with Him every delight, reward, joy, security, honor, and blessing."
Books referenced
al-Fawāʾid II
Ibn al-Qayyim · 6h 04m
Abu Bakr al-Siddiq
Ibn Kathir · 6h 10m
The Story of Yunus & the Destroyed
Ibn Kathir · 30m
Al-ʿAqīda al-Ṭaḥāwiyya
Abū Jaʿfar al-Ṭaḥāwī · 36m
The Book of Prayer
Imam al-Ghazali · 5h 10m
Character and Conduct
Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba · 3h 6m
Volume One
Ibn al-Qayyim · 18h 43m
al-Fawāʾid
Ibn al-Qayyim · 6h 03m