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1.  *     No! I swear by this land,
 
2.  *     and thou art a lodger in this land;
 
3.  *     by the begetter, and that he begot,
 
4.  *     indeed, We created man in trouble.
 
5.  *     What, does he think none has power over him,
 
6.  *     saying, 'I have consumed wealth abundant'?
 
7.  *     What, does he think none has seen him?
 
8.  *     Have We not appointed to him two eyes,
 
9.  *     and a tongue, and two lips,
 
10.  *     and guided him on the two highways?
 
11.  *     Yet he has not assaulted the steep;
 
12.  *     and what shall teach thee what is the steep?
 
13.  *     The freeing of a slave,
 
14.  *     or giving food upon a day of hunger
 
15.  *     to an orphan near of kin
 
16.  *     or a needy man in misery;
 
17.  *     then that he become of those who believe and counsel each other to be steadfast, and counsel each other to be merciful.
 
18.  *     Those are the Companions of the Right Hand.
 
19.  *     And those who disbelieve in Our signs, they are the Companions of the Left Hand;
 
20.  *     over them is a Fire covered down.