The Night (Al-Layl)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
I swear by the night when it draws a veil, 1 and by the day when it unveils. 2 By Him Who hath created the male and the female, 3 That your endeavour is for different ends. 4 For him that gives and fears (Allah) 5 And affirms goodness, 6 We shall ease the way of fortune for him. 7 But for those who are niggardly, horde their wealth, 8 and have no faith in receiving any reward (from God). 9 We shall pave his way to hardship, 10 And his riches will not avail him when he falls headlong (into the Abyss). 11 Lo! Ours it is (to give) the guidance 12 and to Us belong the Last and the First. 13 I have warned you about the fierce blazing fire 14 None shall enter it save the most wretched, 15 who denied [the truth], and turned away. 16 Far removed from it will be the righteous 17 he that spends his possessions [on others] so that he might grow in purity 18 And is under no one's obligation to return his favour, 19 Except only the desire to seek the Countenance of his Lord, the Most High; 20 He surely will be pleased (when he will enter Paradise). 21