| In the Name of Allâh, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. |
| 1. |

I swear by this city (Makkah); |
| 2. |

And you are free (from sin, to punish the enemies of
Islâm on the Day of the conquest) in this city (Makkah)[]
, |
| 3. |

And by the begetter (i.e. Adam >>) and that which
he begot (i.e. his progeny); |
| 4. |

Verily, We have created man in toil. |
| 5. |

Thinks he that none can overcome him? |
| 6. |

He says (boastfully): "I have wasted wealth in
abundance!" |
| 7. |

Thinks he that none sees him? |
| 8. |

Have We not made for him a pair of eyes? |
| 9. |

And a tongue and a pair of lips? |
| 10. |

And shown him the two ways (good and evil)? |
| 11. |

But he has made no effort to pass on the path that
is steep. |
| 12. |

And what will make you know the path that is steep? |
| 13. |

(It is) Freeing a neck (slave, etc.)[] |
| 14. |

Or giving food in a day of hunger (famine), |
| 15. |

To an orphan near of kin. |
| 16. |

Or to a Miskîn (poor) afflicted with misery. |
| 17. |

Then he became one of those who believed, and recommended
one another to perseverance and patience, and (also) recommended
one another to pity and compassion. |
| 18. |

They are those on the Right Hand (the dwellers of Paradise), |
| 19. |

But those who disbelieved in Our Ayât (proofs,
evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.), they are
those on the Left Hand (the dwellers of Hell). |
| 20. |

The Fire will be shut over them (i.e. they will be
enveloped by the Fire without any opening or window or outlet.[] |