The Night (Al-Layl)
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
By the night when it covers the day, 1 and the day as it rises bright! 2 Consider the creation of the male and the female! 3 Lo! your effort is dispersed (toward divers ends). 4 We shall facilitate the path to bliss 5 And believed the best matter to be true 6 So We will very soon provide him ease. 7 But for those who are niggardly, horde their wealth, 8 And who belieth the Good, 9 Unto him therefore We shall Indeed make easy the path to hardship. 10 And what will his wealth avail him when he falls? 11 Verify on us is the guidance 12 and to Us belong the hereafter and the worldly life. 13 I have now warned you of the Blazing Fire, 14 Which only the most wretched must endure, 15 Who had denied and turned away. 16 And avoid it shall the most pious, 17 Who gives away his wealth, purifying himself 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 And indeed, soon he will be very pleased. 21