Chapter 90, 20 verses
Nay! I swear by this city.
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم لا أقسم بهذا البلد
I swear by this city, Makkah -
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. I swear by this city (Makkah);
And you shall be made free from obligation in this city - -
وأنت حل بهذا البلد
And you, [O Muhammad], are free of restriction in this city -
And you are free (from sin, and to punish the enemies of Islam on the Day of the conquest) in this city (Makkah).
And the begetter and whom he begot.
ووالد وما ولد
And [by] the father and that which was born [of him],
And by the begetter (i.e. Adam عليه السلام) and that which he begot (i.e. his progeny).
Certainly We have created man to be in distress.
لقد خلقنا الإنسان في كبد
We have certainly created man into hardship.
Verily, We have created man in toil.
Does he think that no one has power over him?
أيحسب أن لن يقدر عليه أحد
Does he think that never will anyone overcome him?
Does he think that none can overcome him?
He shall say: I have wasted much wealth.
يقول أهلكت مالا لبدا
He says, "I have spent wealth in abundance."
He says (boastfully): "I have wasted wealth in abundance!"
Does he think that no one sees him?
أيحسب أن لم يره أحد
Does he think that no one has seen him?
Does he think that none sees him?
Have We not given him two eyes,
ألم نجعل له عينين
Have We not made for him two eyes?
Have We not made for him two eyes,
And a tongue and two lips,
ولسانا وشفتين
And a tongue and two lips?
And a tongue and two lips?
And pointed out to him the two conspicuous ways?
وهديناه النجدين
And have shown him the two ways?
And shown him the two ways (good and evil)?
But he would not attempt the uphill road,
فلا اقتحم العقبة
But he has not broken through the difficult pass.
But he has not attempted to pass on the path that is steep (i.e. the path which will lead to goodness and success).
And what will make you comprehend what the uphill road is?
وما أدراك ما العقبة
And what can make you know what is [breaking through] the difficult pass?
And what will make you know the path that is steep?
(It is) the setting free of a slave,
فك رقبة
It is the freeing of a slave
(It is) freeing a neck (slave)
Or the giving of food in a day of hunger
أو إطعام في يوم ذي مسغبة
Or feeding on a day of severe hunger
Or giving food in a day of hunger (famine),
To an orphan, having relationship,
يتيما ذا مقربة
An orphan of near relationship
To an orphan near of kin.
Or to the poor man lying in the dust.
أو مسكينا ذا متربة
Or a needy person in misery
Or to a Miskin (poor) cleaving to dust (out of misery).
Then he is of those who believe and charge one another to show patience, and charge one another to show compassion.
ثم كان من الذين آمنوا وتواصوا بالصبر وتواصوا بالمرحمة
And then being among those who believed and advised one another to patience and advised one another to compassion.
Then he became one of those who believed (in the Islamic Monotheism) and recommended one another to perseverance and patience, and (also) recommended one another to pity and compassion.
These are the people of the right hand.
أولئك أصحاب الميمنة
Those are the companions of the right.
They are those on the Right Hand (i.e. the dwellers of Paradise),
And (as for) those who disbelieve in our communications, they are the people of the left hand.
والذين كفروا بآياتنا هم أصحاب المشأمة
But they who disbelieved in Our signs - those are the companions of the left.
But those who disbelieved in Our Ayat (proofs, evidence, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.), they are those on the Left Hand (the dwellers of Hell).
On them is fire closed over.
عليهم نار مؤصدة
Over them will be fire closed in.
The Fire will be shut over them (i.e. they will be enveloped by the Fire without any opening or window or outlet.