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