Al-Layl الليل
Toward ease, toward hardship لليسرى وللعسرى
Summary and links in the frieze
In the frieze He sees two paths: giving and guarding oneself lead toward ease, stinginess leads toward hardship.
Read just before, 93 leads here: “You will be satisfied,” the sura promises; the next promises the same to the most guarded, who gives his goods to purify himself. 93
It leads to 91: The most wretched who will burn has a face in the next sura: the most wretched of the Thamud, before the she-camel of God. 91
Closes on “They ask one another”
بسم ٱلله ٱلرحمن ٱلرحيم
In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent.
By the night when it covers all! By the day when it unveils itself! By what created the male and the female! Your efforts are surely dispersed.
وٱليل إذا يغشى وٱلنهار إذا تجلى وما خلق ٱلذكر وٱلأنثى إن سعيكم لشتى
As for the one who endows, and guards himself, and declares true the most beautiful — We will ease him toward ease.
فأما من أعطى وٱتقى وصدق بٱلحسنى فسنيسره لليسرى
But as for the one who is stingy, and considers himself self-sufficient, and denies the most beautiful — We will ease him toward hardship.
وأما من بخل وٱستغنى وكذب بٱلحسنى فسنيسره للعسرى
And his goods will not avail him when he falls.
وما يغني عنه ماله إذا تردى
Surely, upon Us is the guidance, and surely to Us belong the last life and the first.
إن علينا للهدى وإن لنا للءاخرة وٱلأولى
So I have warned you of a fire that flares, in which none will burn except the most wretched, who denied and turned his back.
فأنذرتكم نارا تلظى لا يصلىهآ إلا ٱلأشقى ٱلذي كذب وتولى
And the most guarded will be kept at a distance from it, he who gives his goods to purify himself,
وسيجنبها ٱلأتقى ٱلذي يؤتي ماله يتزكى
and no one has with him any blessing to be recompensed, except to seek the direction of his Guardian, the Most High.
وما لأحد عنده من نعمة تجزى إلا ٱبتغآء وجه ربه ٱلأعلى
And he will surely soon be satisfied.
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