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 when it shines in all its glory, 2 And the creating of the male and the female, 3 Lo! your effort is dispersed (toward divers ends). 4 Then as for him who giveths and feareth Him. 5 for those who spend for the cause of God, 6 Surely We will ease his way unto the state of ease. 7 but for him that is a miser, and sufficed, 8 and he belied the finest 9 We shall facilitate the path to affliction 10 And his wealth will not avail him when he perishes. 11 Surely it is for Us to show the Right Way, 12 And lo! unto Us belong the latter portion and the former. 13 I therefore warn you of the fire that is ablaze. 14 [the fire] which none shall have to endure but that most hapless wretch 15 who have rejected the (Truth) and have turned away from it. 16 and from which the most godfearing shall be removed, 17 He who spends his wealth for increase in self-purification, 18 and owes no favour to anyone, which is to be repaid, 19 but only out of a longing for the countenance of his Sustainer, the All-Highest: 20 He surely will be pleased (when he will enter Paradise). 21