The Night (Al-Layl)
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
By the night when it envelopeth, 1 And the day when it shines in brightness, 2 and by the creation of the male and the female. 3 O men, you truly strive towards the most diverse ends! 4 Yet he who gives to others and has fear, 5 And believed the best matter to be true 6 We will facilitate for him the easy end. 7 And as for him who stinteth and is heedless, 8 and rejects what is right, 9 We shall facilitate for him the way to Hardship, 10 And his substance will avail him not when he perisheth. 11 Surely upon Us rests the guidance, 12 And to Us belong the End and the Beginning. 13 I have now warned you of a Blazing Fire, 14 in which none shall be roasted except the most wretched sinner, 15 Who denied (the truth) and turned away. 16 and from which the most godfearing shall be removed, 17 even he who gives his wealth. to purify himself 18 and confers no favour on any man for recompense, 19 seeking only the Face of his Lord, the Most High, 20 And presently he shall become well pleased. 21