Nay! I bring to witness this city (Makka)
— and you are a freeman and a citizen of this city
And (I bring to witness) the begetter (father) and that (son) which he begot
Verily, We have created the human being to face hardship
Does he think that none will (ever) object against him
He says (regretfully): “I have spent enormous wealth!”
Does he think that none has watched him (— neither Allah, nor the two angels imposed on him)
Have We not made for him a pair of eyes
And a tongue, and a pair of lips
And We showed him the two ways (the righteous as well as the evil one)
But he has not yet passed through the difficult terrain
And what has made you realise what Al-Aqaba (the difficult terrain) is
It is freeing or getting freed one (human) neck from (any sort of) enslavement
Or providing food in a day of famine and hunger
to Yatim (weak in society, or an orphan,) near of kin
or an indigent in full contentment
Then he became of those who accepted Faith, and they recommended to one another for perseverance and patience; and they recommended one another for pity and compassion
Such are the people of the desirable site
And those who disbelieved in Ayaatina: they are the people of the site devoid of (Allah’s) mercy
over them (will be) Fire, made completely covered over them with no outlet