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And whoever does not find the means, then an abstention of three days during the Hajj, and seven once you have returned: that is ten full days.

And mothers take their children into care for two full years,

but when they are alone, they bite their fingertips, out of rage against you.

And what an excellent reward for those who work!

Their Guardian answered them, then: "I do not let the deed of one of you who acts dissipate, male or female —

Say: "O my people! Act according to your position; I too am indeed acting.

The acts of charity are destined only for the poor, the destitute, those who administer them, those whose cores have been united, those under the burden of a debt, those indebted by an unforeseen expense, in the way of God, and the passing traveler — an obligation from God.

O my people, act according to your position; I too am acting:

And say to those who do not believe: "Act according to your position; we act; and wait: we too are indeed waiting."

And when it is said to them: "What has your Guardian sent down?" they say: "Legends of the ancients" — so as to bear, on the Day of Appearance, their burdens in full, and a portion of the burdens of those they mislead without knowledge:

which they will continue to do —

though they will carry nothing of their faults;

what an excellent reward for those who work,

It is for the like of this that those who act should act.

Say: "O my people, act according to your position; I too am acting;

And they will say: "Praise be to God, who has kept His promise to us, and made us inherit the earth, settling in the Garden wherever we will; how excellent is the reward of those who work!"

And they say: "Our cores are under coverings against what you call us to, and there is a deafness in our ears, and between us and you a veil. So act — we too are acting."

In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. By those that winnow, winnowing, those that bear a heavy weight, those that glide with ease, those that distribute a command: what you are promised is indeed true, and the Due will surely befall.

Some faces, that Day, will be humble, toiling, exhausted. They will be made to burn in a scorching fire, given drink from a boiling spring.