The Night (Al-Layl)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
By the night when it enshrouds, 1 and by the day when it unveils. 2 And by Him Who created male and female; 3 Verily, [O men,] you aim at most divergent ends! 4 As for him who giveth and is dutiful (toward Allah) 5 and believes in the finest, 6 We will facilitate for him the easy end. 7 but for him that is a miser, and sufficed, 8 And rejects goodness, 9 We shall surely ease him to the Hardship; 10 his wealth shall not avail him when he perishes. 11 Surely, in Our hands is guidance, 12 And truly, unto Us (belong) the last (Hereafter) and the first (this world). 13 I therefore warn you of the fire that is ablaze. 14 No one will burn in it but the most wretched, 15 who rejected the Truth, calling it falsehood and turned his back on it. 16 and from which the most godfearing shall be removed, 17 Those who spend their wealth for increase in self-purification, 18 and confers no favour on any man for recompense, 19 except the pleasure of their Lord, the Most High 20 He surely will be pleased (when he will enter Paradise). 21