1By the DAYBREAK and ten nights.

3By that which is double and that which is single.

4By the night when it pursues its course!

5Is there not in this an oath becoming a man of sense?

6Hast thou not seen how thy Lord dealt with Ad.

7At Irem adorned with pillars.

8Whose like have not been reared in these lands!

9And with Themoud who hewed out the rocks in the valley.

10And with Pharaoh the impaler.

11Who all committed excesses in the lands.

12And multiplied wickedness therein.

13Wherefore thy Lord let loose on them the scourge of chastisement.

14For thy Lord standeth on a watch tower.

15As to man, when his Lord trieth him and honoureth him and is bounteous to him.

15Then saith he, "My Lord honoureth me."

16He saith, "My Lord despiseth me."

16But when he proveth him and limiteth his gifts to him.

17Aye. But ye honour not the orphan.

18Nor urge ye one another to feed the poor.

19And ye devour heritages, devouring greedily.

20And ye love riches with exceeding love.

21Aye. But when the earth shall be crushed with crushing, crushing.

22And thy Lord shall come and the angels rank on rank.

23And Hell on that day shall be moved up,–Man shall on that day remember himself. But how shall remembrance help him?

24He shall say, Oh! would that I had prepared for this my life!

25On that day none shall punish as God punisheth.

26And none shall bind with such bonds as He.

27Oh, thou soul which art at rest.

28Return to thy Lord, pleased, and pleasing him.

29Enter thou among my servants.

30And enter thou my Paradise.