The Night (Al-Layl)
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
By the night as it envelops; 1 and by the day as it appears radiantly, 2 Consider the creation of the male and the female! 3 your striving is indeed to different ends! 4 We shall facilitate the path to bliss 5 And testifieth to the Good, 6 observe piety, and believe in receiving rewards from God. 7 but for him that is a miser, and sufficed, 8 and denied the Truth of goodness: 9 We will make smooth for him the path for evil; 10 his wealth shall not avail him when he perishes. 11 Verify on us is the guidance 12 and to Us belong the Next Life and the present. 13 Therefore do I warn you of a Fire blazing fiercely; 14 where none shall burn except the most wicked, 15 who have rejected the (Truth) and have turned away from it. 16 But the righteous one will avoid it - 17 Those who spend their wealth for increase in self-purification, 18 And have in his mind no favour from anyone for which a reward is expected in return, 19 He desires only to please his Lord, the Supreme. 20 and before long he will be well satisfied. 21