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