مصحف الثريا

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ لَآ أُقْسِمُ بِهَٰذَا ٱلْبَلَدِ ۝١

NAY! I call to witness this land –

وَأَنتَ حِلٌّۢ بِهَٰذَا ٱلْبَلَدِ ۝٢

this land in which thou art free to dwell -

وَوَالِدٍۢ وَمَا وَلَدَ ۝۳

and [I call to witness] parent and offspring:

لَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ فِى كَبَدٍ ۝٤

Verily, We have created man into [a life of] pain, toil and trial.

أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّن يَقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ أَحَدٌۭ ۝٥

Does he, then, think that no one has power over him?

يَقُولُ أَهْلَكْتُ مَالًۭا لُّبَدًا ۝٦

He boasts, "I have spent wealth abundant!"

أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّمْ يَرَهُۥٓ أَحَدٌ ۝۷

Does he, then, think that no one sees him?

أَلَمْ نَجْعَل لَّهُۥ عَيْنَيْنِ ۝۸

Have We not given him two eyes,

وَلِسَانًۭا وَشَفَتَيْنِ ۝۹

and a tongue, and a pair of lips,

وَهَدَيْنَٰهُ ٱلنَّجْدَيْنِ ۝١۰

and shown him the two highways [of good and evil]?

فَلَا ٱقْتَحَمَ ٱلْعَقَبَةَ ۝١١

But he would not try to ascend the steep uphill road...

وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْعَقَبَةُ ۝١٢

And what could make thee conceive what it is, that steep uphill road?

فَكُّ رَقَبَةٍ ۝١۳

[It is] the freeing of one's neck [from the burden of sin],

أَوْ إِطْعَٰمٌۭ فِى يَوْمٍۢ ذِى مَسْغَبَةٍۢ ۝١٤

or the feeding, upon a day of [one's own] hunger,

يَتِيمًۭا ذَا مَقْرَبَةٍ ۝١٥

of an orphan near of kin,

أَوْ مِسْكِينًۭا ذَا مَتْرَبَةٍۢ ۝١٦

or of a needy [stranger] lying in the dust –

ثُمَّ كَانَ مِنَ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَتَوَاصَوْا۟ بِٱلصَّبْرِ وَتَوَاصَوْا۟ بِٱلْمَرْحَمَةِ ۝١۷

and being, withal, of those who have attained to faith, and who enjoin upon one another patience in adversity, and enjoin upon one another compassion.

أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ أَصْحَٰبُ ٱلْمَيْمَنَةِ ۝١۸

Such are they that have attained to righteousness;

وَٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا هُمْ أَصْحَٰبُ ٱلْمَشْـَٔمَةِ ۝١۹

whereas those who are bent on denying the truth of Our messages – they are such as have lost themselves in evil,

عَلَيْهِمْ نَارٌۭ مُّؤْصَدَةٌۢ ۝٢۰

[with] fire closing in upon them.