|
In the Name of Allâh, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.
|
| 1. |
I swear by this city (Makkah); |
| 2. |
And you are free (from sin, to punish the enemies of Islâm on the
Day of the conquest) in this city (Makkah)[] , |
| 3. |
And by the begetter (i.e. Adam <><>) and that which
he begot (i.e. his progeny); |
| 4. |
Verily, We have created man in toil. |
| 5. |
Thinks he that none can overcome him? |
| 6. |
He says (boastfully): "I have wasted wealth in abundance!" |
| 7. |
Thinks he that none sees him? |
| 8. |
Have We not made for him a pair of eyes? |
| 9. |
And a tongue and a pair of lips? |
| 10. |
And shown him the two ways (good and evil)? |
| 11. |
But he has made no effort to pass on the path that is steep. |
| 12. |
And what will make you know the path that is steep? |
| 13. |
(It is) Freeing a neck (slave, etc.)[] |
| 14. |
Or giving food in a day of hunger (famine), |
| 15. |
To an orphan near of kin. |
| 16. |
Or to a Miskîn (poor) afflicted with misery. |
| 17. |
Then he became one of those who believed, and recommended one another
to perseverance and patience, and (also) recommended one another to pity
and compassion. |
| 18. |
They are those on the Right Hand (the dwellers of Paradise), |
| 19. |
But those who disbelieved in Our Ayât (proofs, evidences,
verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.), they are those on the Left Hand
(the dwellers of Hell). |
| 20. |
The Fire will be shut over them (i.e. they will be enveloped by the Fire
without any opening or window or outlet.[] |