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. |
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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.[] |