Al Lail
Chapter 92, 21 verses
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Hilali & Muhsin Khan
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Pickthall
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Shakir
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Hilali & Muhsin Khan
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. By the night as it envelops.
Pickthall
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. By the night enshrouding
Shakir
I swear by the night when it draws a veil,
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وَٱلَّيْلِ إِذَا يَغْشَىٰ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
By the day as it appears in brightness.
Pickthall
And the day resplendent
Shakir
And the day when it shines in brightness,
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وَٱلنَّهَارِ إِذَا تَجَلَّىٰ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
By Him Who created male and female.
Pickthall
And Him Who hath created male and female,
Shakir
And the creating of the male and the female,
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وَمَا خَلَقَ ٱلذَّكَرَ وَٱلْأُنثَىٰٓ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
Certainly, your efforts and deeds are diverse (different in aims and purposes);
Pickthall
Lo! your effort is dispersed (toward divers ends).
Shakir
Your striving is most surely (directed to) various (ends).
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إِنَّ سَعْيَكُمْ لَشَتَّىٰ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
As for him who gives (in charity) and keeps his duty to Allah and fears Him,
Pickthall
As for him who giveth and is dutiful (toward Allah)
Shakir
Then as for him who gives away and guards (against evil),
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فَأَمَّا مَنْ أَعْطَىٰ وَٱتَّقَىٰ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
And believes in Al-Husna.
Pickthall
And believeth in goodness;
Shakir
And accepts the best,
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وَصَدَّقَ بِٱلْحُسْنَىٰ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
We will make smooth for him the path of ease (goodness).
Pickthall
Surely We will ease his way unto the state of ease.
Shakir
We will facilitate for him the easy end.
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فَسَنُيَسِّرُهُۥ لِلْيُسْرَىٰ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
But he who is greedy miser and thinks himself self-sufficient.
Pickthall
But as for him who hoardeth and deemeth himself independent,
Shakir
And as for him who is niggardly and considers himself free from need (of Allah),
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وَأَمَّا مَنۢ بَخِلَ وَٱسْتَغْنَىٰ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
And belies Al-Husna (See the footnote of the Verse No.6)
Pickthall
And disbelieveth in goodness;
Shakir
And rejects the best,
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وَكَذَّبَ بِٱلْحُسْنَىٰ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
We will make smooth for him the path for evil.
Pickthall
Surely We will ease his way unto adversity.
Shakir
We will facilitate for him the difficult end.
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فَسَنُيَسِّرُهُۥ لِلْعُسْرَىٰ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
And what will his wealth avail him when he goes down (in destruction)?.
Pickthall
His riches will not save him when he perisheth.
Shakir
And his wealth will not avail him when he perishes.
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وَمَا يُغْنِى عَنْهُ مَالُهُۥٓ إِذَا تَرَدَّىٰٓ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
Truly! On Us is (to give) guidance.
Pickthall
Lo! Ours it is (to give) the guidance
Shakir
Surely Ours is it to show the way,
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إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا لَلْهُدَىٰ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
And truly, unto Us (belong) the last (Hereafter) and the first (this world).
Pickthall
And lo! unto Us belong the latter portion and the former.
Shakir
And most surely Ours is the hereafter and the former.
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وَإِنَّ لَنَا لَلْءَاخِرَةَ وَٱلْأُولَىٰ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
Therefore I have warned you of a blazing Fire (Hell).
Pickthall
Therefor have I warned you of the flaming Fire
Shakir
Therefore I warn you of the fire that flames:
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فَأَنذَرْتُكُمْ نَارًا تَلَظَّىٰ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
None shall enter it save the most wretched.
Pickthall
Which only the most wretched must endure,
Shakir
None shall enter it but the most unhappy,
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لَا يَصْلَىٰهَآ إِلَّا ٱلْأَشْقَى
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
Who denies and turns away.
Pickthall
He who denieth and turneth away.
Shakir
Who gives the lie (to the truth) and turns (his) back.
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ٱلَّذِى كَذَّبَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
And Al-Muttaqun (the pious - See V.2:2) will be far removed from it (Hell).
Pickthall
Far removed from it will be the righteous
Shakir
And away from it shall be kept the one who guards most (against evil),
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وَسَيُجَنَّبُهَا ٱلْأَتْقَى
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
He who spends his wealth for increase in self-purification,
Pickthall
Who giveth his wealth that he may grow (in goodness).
Shakir
Who gives away his wealth, purifying himself
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ٱلَّذِى يُؤْتِى مَالَهُۥ يَتَزَكَّىٰ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
And who has (in mind) no favour from anyone to be paid back,
Pickthall
And none hath with him any favour for reward,
Shakir
And no one has with him any boon for which he should be rewarded,
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وَمَا لِأَحَدٍ عِندَهُۥ مِن نِّعْمَةٍ تُجْزَىٰٓ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
Except to seek the Countenance of his Lord, the Most High.
Pickthall
Except as seeking (to fulfil) the purpose of his Lord Most High.
Shakir
Except the seeking of the pleasure of his Lord, the Most High.
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إِلَّا ٱبْتِغَآءَ وَجْهِ رَبِّهِ ٱلْأَعْلَىٰ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
He surely will be pleased (when he enters Paradise).
Pickthall
He verily will be content.
Shakir
And he shall soon be well - pleased.
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وَلَسَوْفَ يَرْضَىٰ