وَٱلَّيْلِ إِذَا يَغْشَىٰ

1. By the night as it envelops.

وَٱلنَّهَارِ إِذَا تَجَلَّىٰ

2. By the day as it appears in brightness.

وَمَا خَلَقَ ٱلذَّكَرَ وَٱلْأُنثَىٰٓ

3. By Him Who created male and female.

إِنَّ سَعْيَكُمْ لَشَتَّىٰ

4. Certainly, your efforts and deeds are diverse (different in aims and purposes);

فَأَمَّا مَنْ أَعْطَىٰ وَٱتَّقَىٰ

5. As for him who gives (in charity) and keeps his duty to Allah and fears Him,

وَصَدَّقَ بِٱلْحُسْنَىٰ

6. And believes in Al-Husnâ.[1]

فَسَنُيَسِّرُهُۥ لِلْيُسْرَىٰ

7. We will make smooth for him the path of ease (goodness).

وَأَمَّا مَنۢ بَخِلَ وَٱسْتَغْنَىٰ

8. But he who is greedy miser and thinks himself self-sufficient.[2]

وَكَذَّبَ بِٱلْحُسْنَىٰ

9. And belies Al-Husnâ (See the footnote of the Verse No.6)

فَسَنُيَسِّرُهُۥ لِلْعُسْرَىٰ

10. We will make smooth for him the path for evil.

وَمَا يُغْنِى عَنْهُ مَالُهُۥٓ إِذَا تَرَدَّىٰٓ

11. And what will his wealth avail him when he goes down (in destruction)?.

إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا لَلْهُدَىٰ

12. Truly! On Us is (to give) guidance.

وَإِنَّ لَنَا لَلْءَاخِرَةَ وَٱلْأُولَىٰ

13. And truly, unto Us (belong) the last (Hereafter) and the first (this world).

فَأَنذَرْتُكُمْ نَارًا تَلَظَّىٰ

14. Therefore I have warned you of a blazing Fire (Hell).

لَا يَصْلَىٰهَآ إِلَّا ٱلْأَشْقَى

15. None shall enter it save the most wretched.

ٱلَّذِى كَذَّبَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ

16. Who denies and turns away.

وَسَيُجَنَّبُهَا ٱلْأَتْقَى

17. And Al-Muttaqûn (the pious - See V.2:2) will be far removed from it (Hell).

ٱلَّذِى يُؤْتِى مَالَهُۥ يَتَزَكَّىٰ

18. He who spends his wealth for increase in self-purification,

وَمَا لِأَحَدٍ عِندَهُۥ مِن نِّعْمَةٍ تُجْزَىٰٓ

19. And who has (in mind) no favour from anyone to be paid back,

إِلَّا ٱبْتِغَآءَ وَجْهِ رَبِّهِ ٱلْأَعْلَىٰ

20. Except to seek the Countenance of his Lord, the Most High.

وَلَسَوْفَ يَرْضَىٰ

21. He surely will be pleased (when he enters Paradise).