The Night (Al-Layl)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
By the night, when it envelops, 1 And by oath of the day when it shines 2 and That which created the male and the female, 3 surely your strivings are divergent. 4 As for one who gives [to others] and fears [God], 5 and affirmed the Truth of goodness: 6 observe piety, and believe in receiving rewards from God. 7 As for him who was a miser and behaved with aversion (to Allah), 8 And rejects goodness, 9 We will facilitate for him the difficult end. 10 And his substance will avail him not when he perisheth. 11 Surely, in Our hands is guidance, 12 And lo! unto Us belong the latter portion and the former. 13 Therefore do I warn you of a Fire blazing fiercely; 14 None shall enter it but the most unhappy, 15 who denied [the truth], and turned away. 16 Far removed from it will be the righteous 17 Those who spend their wealth for increase in self-purification, 18 And is under no one's obligation to return his favour, 19 But only the desire to seek for the Countenance of their Lord Most High; 20 and the reward (of their Lord) will certainly make them happy. 21