The Night (Al-Layl)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
By the night, when it envelops, 1 by the day when it appears radiant, 2 By (the mystery of) the creation of male and female;- 3 surely your strivings are divergent. 4 Yet he who gives to others and has fear, 5 and believes in the truth of what is right, 6 So We will very soon provide him ease. 7 And as for him who stinteth and is heedless, 8 and calls the ultimate good a lie 9 We shall pave his way to hardship, 10 and his wealth shall be of no avail to him when he perishes. 11 Surely, it is for Us to provide guidance -- 12 And lo! unto Us belong the latter portion and the former. 13 I have warned you then about a raging Fire: 14 No one will burn in it but the most wretched, 15 He who denieth and turneth away. 16 One who fears God shall be kept away from it -- 17 the Godfearing who spends his wealth to purify himself; 18 And none hath with him any favour for reward, 19 But only the desire to seek for the Countenance of their Lord Most High; 20 He surely will be pleased (when he will enter Paradise). 21