English - Chapter 92 - Al-Layl

BY THE night, when she lets fall her darkness

and by the radiant day

By Him that created the male and the female

your endeavours have varied ends

For him that gives and fears God

and believes in goodness

We shall smooth the path of salvation

but for him that gives nothing and strives to enrich himself

and disbelieves in goodness

We shall smooth the path of affliction

When he breathes his last, his riches will not avail him

It is for Us to give guidance

Ours is the life to come, Ours the life of this world

I warn you, then, of a blazing Fire

in which none shall burn save the hardened sinner

who disbelieves and turns away

But the good man who keeps himself pure by almsgiving shall keep away from it

and so shall he that does good works

for the sake of his Lord the Most High only, seeking no recompense

But only seeking the countenance of his Lord, Most High