The Night (Al-Layl)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
By the night, when it envelops, 1 and by the day as it appears radiantly, 2 Consider the creation of the male and the female! 3 Lo! your effort is dispersed (toward divers ends). 4 Yet he who gives to others and has fear, 5 And (in all sincerity) testifies to the best,- 6 for him shall We make easy the path towards [ultimate] ease. 7 But as for him who is a miser, and self-sufficient, 8 And disbelieveth in goodness; 9 for him shall We make easy the path towards hardship: 10 His riches will not save him when he perisheth. 11 Surely Ours is it to show the way, 12 and to Us belongs the Hereafter as well as the present world -- 13 I have now warned you of the Blazing Fire, 14 No one will burn in it but the most wretched, 15 who gives the lie to the truth and turns away [from it]. 16 One who fears God shall be kept away from it -- 17 Who gives away his wealth, purifying himself 18 And no one has with him any boon for which he should be rewarded, 19 acting only for the sake of his Lord the Most High -- 20 He verily will be content. 21