The Night (Al-Layl)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
By the night when it enshrouds, 1 And the day resplendent 2 And the creating of the male and the female, 3 That your endeavour is for different ends. 4 We shall facilitate the path to bliss 5 and believes in the finest, 6 We will indeed make smooth for him the path to Bliss. 7 But as for one who is miserly and unheeding, 8 And denies the best [reward], 9 We will indeed make smooth for him the path to Misery; 10 And his substance will avail him not when he perisheth. 11 Surely it is for Us to show the Right Way, 12 and, behold, Ours is [the dominion over] the life to come as well as [over] this earlier part [of your life]: 13 Therefore do I warn you of a Fire blazing fiercely; 14 None shall enter it but the most unhappy, 15 He who denieth and turneth away. 16 and from which the cautious shall be distanced. 17 Those who spend their wealth for increase in self-purification, 18 and confers no favour on any man for recompense, 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