Surah “The City, This Countryside”

Nay, I cite as witness this City

And affirm that thou wilt, surely, alight in this City

And I cite as witness the father and the son

WE have, surely, created man to toil and struggle

Does he think that no one has power over him

He says, `I have wasted enormous wealth.

Does he think that no one sees him

Have WE not given him two eyes

And a tongue and two lips

And WE have pointed out to him the two highways of good and evil

But he attempted not the steep ascent

And what should make thee know what the steep ascent is

It is the freeing of a slave

Or, feeding on a day of hunger

An orphan near of kin

Or, a poor man lying in the dust

Then he should have been of those who believe and exhort one another to perseverance and exhort one another to mercy

These are the people of the right hand

But those who reject Our Signs, they are the people of the left hand

On them will be Fire closed over