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1.  *     I do not (need to) swear by this town (Mecca)
 
2.  *     in which you are now living
 
3.  *     or by the great father and his wonderful son (Abraham and Ishmael)
 
4.  *     that We have created the human being to face a great deal of hardship.
 
5.  *     Does He think that no one will ever have control over him?
 
6.  *     (He boasts and shows off) saying, "I have spent a great deal of money (for the cause of God)".
 
7.  *     Does he think that no one has seen him?
 
8.  *     Have We not given him two eyes,
 
9.  *     a tongue, and two lips?
 
10.  *     Have We not shown him the ways of good and evil?
 
11.  *     Yet, he has not entered into Aqaba.
 
12.  *     Would that you knew what Aqaba is!
 
13.  *     It is the setting free of a slave
 
14.  *     or, in a day of famine, the feeding of
 
15.  *     an orphaned relative
 
16.  *     and downtrodden destitute person, (so that he would be of)
 
17.  *     the believers who cooperate with others in patience ( steadfastness) and kindness.
 
18.  *     These are the people of the right hand.
 
19.  *     As for those who disbelieve in Our revelations, they are the people of the left
 
20.  *     who will be engulfed in the fire.