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| 1. * | I NEED not to swear by this SOIL, |
| 2. * | This soil on which thou dost dwell, |
| 3. * | Or by sire and offspring! |
| 4. * | Surely in trouble have we created man. |
| 5. * | What! thinketh he that no one hath power over him? |
| 6. * | I have wasted, saith he, "enormous riches!" |
| 7. * | What! thinketh he that no one regardeth him? |
| 8. * | What! have we not made him eyes, |
| 9. * | And tongue, and lips, |
| 10. * | And guided him to the two highways? |
| 11. * | Yet he attempted not the steep. |
| 12. * | And who shall teach thee what the steep is? |
| 13. * | It is to ransom the captive, |
| 14. * | Or to feed in the day of famine, |
| 15. * | The orphan who is near of kin, or the poor that lieth in the dust; |
| 16. * | Beside this, to be of those who believe, and enjoin stedfastness on each other, and enjoin compassion on each other. |
| 17. * | These shall be the people of the right hand: |
| 18. * | While they who disbelieve our signs, |
| 19. * | Shall be the people of the left. |
| 20. * | Around them the fire shall close. |