Surah “The City, This Countryside”

I swear by this city

-and you are a free dweller in this city­

and by the begetter and the begotten:

surely We have created humanity in difficulty.

Do they think no one has power over them?

They say they have spent much wealth;

do they think no one sees them?

Have we not given them two eyes,

and a tongue, and two lips?

And We showed them the two highways.

But they have not embarked upon the steep road.

Arid what will convey to you what the steep road is?

Emancipating a slave,

or feeding on a day of hunger

an orphaned relative

or a pauper in misery.

Then one will be of those who believe, and enjoin patience on one another, and exhort each other to kindness:

they are the company on the Right Hand.

But those who repudiate our signs, they are the company on the Left Hand:

over them will be a vault of fire.