The Night (Al-Layl)
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
By the night when it enshrouds, 1 And by oath of the day when it shines 2 and by the creation of the male and the female. 3 surely your strivings are divergent. 4 Then as for him who gives away and guards (against evil), 5 for those who spend for the cause of God, 6 Unto him therefore We shall indeed make easy the path to ease. 7 And as for him who stinteth and is heedless, 8 And rejects the best, 9 We will ease him toward difficulty. 10 his wealth shall not avail him when he perishes. 11 Surely, it is for Us to provide guidance -- 12 And most surely Ours is the hereafter and the former. 13 I have now warned you of a Blazing Fire, 14 None except the most wicked will enter it. 15 who rejected the Truth, calling it falsehood and turned his back on it. 16 And away from it shall be kept the one who guards most (against evil), 17 he that spends his possessions [on others] so that he might grow in purity 18 And is under no one's obligation to return his favour, 19 He desires only to please his Lord, the Supreme. 20 surely, he shall be satisfied. 21