Surah “The City, This Countryside”

Nay! I swear by this cit

– this city wherein you have been rendered violable

and I swear by the parent and his offspring

Verily We have created man into toil and hardship

Does he think that no one can overpower him

He says: "I have squandered enormous wealth."

Does he believe that none has seen him

Did We not grant him two eyes

and a tongue and two lips

And did We not show him the two highroads (of good and evil)

But he did not venture to scale the difficult steep

And what do you know what that difficult steep is

It is freeing someone´s neck from slavery

or giving food on a day of hunger

to an orphan near of kin

or to a destitute lying in dust

and, then besides this, he be one of those who believed, and enjoined upon one another steadfastness and enjoined upon one another compassion

These are the People of the Right Hand

As for those who rejected Our Signs, they are the People of the Left Hand

Upon them shall be a Fire that will hem them in