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| 1. * | By the night, when it covereth all things with darkness; |
| 2. * | by the day, when it shineth forth; |
| 3. * | by Him who hath created the male, and the female: |
| 4. * | Verily your endeavour is different. |
| 5. * | Now whoso is obedient, and feareth God, |
| 6. * | and professeth the truth of that faith which is most excellent; |
| 7. * | unto him will We facilitate the way to happiness: |
| 8. * | But whoso shall be covetous, and shall be wholly taken up with this world, |
| 9. * | and shall deny the truth of that which is most excellent; |
| 10. * | unto him will We facilitate the way to misery; |
| 11. * | and his riches shall not profit him, when he shall fall headlong into hell. |
| 12. * | Verily unto Us appertaineth the direction of mankind: |
| 13. * | And ours is the life to come, and the present life. |
| 14. * | Wherefore I threaten you with fire which burneth fiercely, |
| 15. * | which none shall enter to be burned except the most wretched; |
| 16. * | who shall have disbelieved, and turned back. |
| 17. * | But he who strictly bewareth idolatry and rebellion, shall be removed far from the same; |
| 18. * | who giveth his substance in alms, |
| 19. * | and by whom no benefit is bestowed on any, that it may be recompensed, |
| 20. * | but who bestoweth the same for the sake of his Lord, the most High: |
| 21. * | And hereafter he shall be well satisfied with his reward. |