1. I swear by this city (Makkah);

2. And you are free in this city (Makkah),

3. And by the parent and their offspring;

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)

14. Or giving food in a day of hunger,

15. To an orphan near of kin.

16. Or to a poor afflicted with misery.

17. Then he became one of those who believed, and recommended one another to perseverance and patience, and 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 Revelation (the dwellers of Hell).

20. The Fire will be shut over them (enveloped by the Fire without an outlet)