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1.  *     Nay, I call to witness this City!
 
2.  *     And thou wilt be made free from obligation in this City --
 
3.  *     And the begetter and he whom he begot!
 
4.  *     We have certainly created man to face difficulties.
 
5.  *     Does he think that no one has power over him?
 
6.  *     He will say: I have wasted much wealth.
 
7.  *     Does he think that no one sees him?
 
8.  *     Have We not given him two eyes,
 
9.  *     And a tongue and two lips,
 
10.  *     And pointed out to him the two conspicuous ways?
 
11.  *     But he attempts not the uphill road;
 
12.  *     And what will make thee comprehend what the uphill road is?
 
13.  *     (It is) to free a slave,
 
14.  *     Or to feed in a day of hunger
 
15.  *     An orphan nearly related,
 
16.  *     Or the poor man lying in the dust.
 
17.  *     Then he is of those who believe and exhort one another to patience, and exhort one another to mercy.
 
18.  *     These are the people of the right hand.
 
19.  *     And those who disbelieve in Our messages, they are the people of the left hand.
 
20.  *     On them is Fire closed over.