The Night (Al-Layl)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
I swear by the night when it draws a veil, 1 and by the day when it breaks in its glory, 2 Consider the creation of the male and the female! 3 surely your strivings are divergent. 4 As for he who gives and fears Allah 5 And believed the best matter to be true 6 So We will very soon provide him ease. 7 As for him who was a miser and behaved with aversion (to Allah), 8 And denies the best [reward], 9 Unto him therefore We shall Indeed make easy the path to hardship. 10 and what will his wealth avail him when he goes down [to his grave]? 11 Surely, in Our hands is guidance, 12 and to Us belong the Last and the First. 13 Therefore do I warn you of a Fire blazing fiercely; 14 Which only the most wretched must endure, 15 who belied and turned away, 16 For, distant from it shall remain he who is truly conscious of God: 17 who spend for the cause of God and purify themselves. 18 And have in his mind no favour from anyone for which a reward is expected in return, 19 except the pleasure of their Lord, the Most High 20 He will surely be well-pleased (with him). 21