O you wrapped up in your garment
Rise to pray in the night except a little (or but not all night)
Half of it, or lessen it a little
Or add to it, and recite the Quran as it ought to be recited
Surely We will make to light upon you (charge you with) a weighty Word (or message)
Surely the vigil of the night is the most potent for the soul (to receive impressions) and the best for framing speech (or the Words of prayer)
Surely you have in the daytime a long occupation (with ordinary affairs of life)
And remember the name of your Lord and devote yourself to Him with exclusive (and wholehearted) devotion
(He is) The Lord of the East and the West - there is no God but He - therefore, take Him for a protector
And bear patiently what they say and avoid them with a becoming avoidance (or leave taking)
And leave Me to deal with the rejecters, the possessors of ease and plenty, and bear with them a little
Surely with Us are heavy fetters and a raging fire
And food that chokes and a painful doom
On the day when the earth and the mountains shall quake and the mountains shall become (as) heaps of running sand
Surely We have sent unto you a Messenger, a witness against you, as We sent a Messenger to Pharaoh
But Pharaoh disobeyed the Messenger, so We seized him with a violent grip
How, then, will you guard yourselves, if you disbelieve, on the day which shall make children grey-headed (with stress)
The heaven shall rend asunder thereby; His promise is ever brought to fulfilment
Surely this is a reminder, let then him, who will, take the way to his Lord
Your Lord does know that you stand in prayer nearly two-thirds of the night, and sometimes half of it, and sometimes a third of it, and so also do a party of those with you; and Allah measures the night and the day. He knows that you are not able to keep