| 1 | By the night as it envelops. | |
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| 2 | By the day as it appears in brightness. | |
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| 3 | By Him Who created male and female. | |
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| 4 | Certainly, your efforts and deeds are diverse (different in aims and purposes); | |
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| 5 | As for him who gives (in charity) and keeps his duty to Allah and fears Him, | |
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| 6 | And believes in Al-Husna. | |
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| 7 | We will make smooth for him the path of ease (goodness). | |
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| 8 | But he who is greedy miser and thinks himself self-sufficient. | |
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| 9 | And belies Al-Husna (See the footnote of the Verse No.6) | |
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| 10 | We will make smooth for him the path for evil. | |
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| 11 | And what will his wealth avail him when he goes down (in destruction)?. | |
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| 12 | Truly! On Us is (to give) guidance. | |
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| 13 | And truly, unto Us (belong) the last (Hereafter) and the first (this world). | |
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| 14 | Therefore I have warned you of a blazing Fire (Hell). | |
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| 15 | None shall enter it save the most wretched. | |
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| 16 | Who denies and turns away. | |
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| 17 | And Al-Muttaqun (the pious - See V.2:2) will be far removed from it (Hell). | |
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| 18 | He who spends his wealth for increase in self-purification, | |
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| 19 | And who has (in mind) no favour from anyone to be paid back, | |
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| 20 | Except to seek the Countenance of his Lord, the Most High. | |
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| 21 | He surely will be pleased (when he enters Paradise). | |
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