مصحف الثريا

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ لَآ أُقْسِمُ بِهَٰذَا ٱلْبَلَدِ ۝١

Nay! I swear by this city

وَأَنتَ حِلٌّۢ بِهَٰذَا ٱلْبَلَدِ ۝٢

– this city wherein you have been rendered violable–

وَوَالِدٍۢ وَمَا وَلَدَ ۝۳

and I swear by the parent and his offspring:

لَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ فِى كَبَدٍ ۝٤

Verily We have created man into toil and hardship.

أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّن يَقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ أَحَدٌۭ ۝٥

Does he think that no one can overpower him?

يَقُولُ أَهْلَكْتُ مَالًۭا لُّبَدًا ۝٦

He says: “I have squandered enormous wealth.”

أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّمْ يَرَهُۥٓ أَحَدٌ ۝۷

Does he believe that none has seen him?

أَلَمْ نَجْعَل لَّهُۥ عَيْنَيْنِ ۝۸

Did We not grant him two eyes,

وَلِسَانًۭا وَشَفَتَيْنِ ۝۹

and a tongue and two lips?

وَهَدَيْنَٰهُ ٱلنَّجْدَيْنِ ۝١۰

And did We not show him the two highroads (of good and evil)?

فَلَا ٱقْتَحَمَ ٱلْعَقَبَةَ ۝١١

But he did not venture to scale the difficult steep.

وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْعَقَبَةُ ۝١٢

And what do you know what that difficult steep is?

فَكُّ رَقَبَةٍ ۝١۳

It is freeing someone's neck from slavery;

أَوْ إِطْعَٰمٌۭ فِى يَوْمٍۢ ذِى مَسْغَبَةٍۢ ۝١٤

or giving food on a day of hunger

يَتِيمًۭا ذَا مَقْرَبَةٍ ۝١٥

to an orphan near of kin;

أَوْ مِسْكِينًۭا ذَا مَتْرَبَةٍۢ ۝١٦

or to a destitute lying in dust;

ثُمَّ كَانَ مِنَ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَتَوَاصَوْا۟ بِٱلصَّبْرِ وَتَوَاصَوْا۟ بِٱلْمَرْحَمَةِ ۝١۷

and, then besides this, he be one of those who believed, and enjoined upon one another steadfastness and enjoined upon one another compassion.

أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ أَصْحَٰبُ ٱلْمَيْمَنَةِ ۝١۸

These are the People of the Right Hand.

وَٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا هُمْ أَصْحَٰبُ ٱلْمَشْـَٔمَةِ ۝١۹

As for those who rejected Our Signs, they are the People of the Left Hand.

عَلَيْهِمْ نَارٌۭ مُّؤْصَدَةٌۢ ۝٢۰

Upon them shall be a Fire that will hem them in.