By the daybreak,
and by ten nights,
and by the pair and the single,
and by the night when it has advanced
Is there any need for oath in this for anyone with understanding?
Have you not seen how your Lord dealt with the people of ‘Ad?
people of Iram, possessor of the lofty pillars,
the like of which was never made in the lands
and people of Samood who hewed the stone in the valley,
and Pharaoh master of the pegs,
they who transgressed in the lands,
and they caused a great deal of mischief therein.
Therefore your Lord poured on them scourge of punishment.
Truly your Lord most certainly is at the place of ambush.
But as for the human being if his Lord tried him and honored him with grace and blessed him, then he will say, “My Lord has honored me.”
But if He tried him and constricted on him his sustenance then he will say, “My Lord has dishonored me.”
Not at all! Nay you do not honour the orphan with grace.
Nor do you encourage one another about the feeding of the needy one.
And you eat the inheritance with a voracious eating.
And you love the wealth with a copious love.
Not at all! When the earth is crushed a total crushing.
And your Lord comes and the angels line by line.
And on that day the hell will be brought. That day the human being will seek to remember but where will he find remembrance?
He will say, “If only I had sent forth [good deeds] for [this] life of mine.”
But for that day no one will punish as much as His punishment.
And no one will bind a binding like His binding.
O you the soul most tranquil!
“Return to your Lord pleased and pleased with
and enter among My servants
and enter My garden.”