The Night (Al-Layl)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
By the Night as it conceals (the light); 1 And the day resplendent 2 By Him Who hath created the male and the female, 3 That your endeavour is for different ends. 4 Yet he who gives to others and has fear, 5 And testifieth to the Good, 6 We will ease him toward ease. 7 But as for him who is a miser, and self-sufficient, 8 And denied the best matter, 9 We will facilitate for him the difficult end. 10 His riches will not save him when he perisheth. 11 Surely it is for Us to show the Right Way, 12 And most surely Ours is the hereafter and the former. 13 I have now warned you of the Blazing Fire, 14 in which none shall be roasted except the most wretched sinner, 15 who have rejected the (Truth) and have turned away from it. 16 He will be far away from the most pious. (The first Caliph S. Abu Bakr Siddiq) 17 who spend for the cause of God and purify themselves. 18 And no one has with him any boon for which he should be rewarded, 19 but only out of a longing for the countenance of his Sustainer, the All-Highest: 20 Will surely be gratified. 21