In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

1. I swear by this city.

2. And you are lawful in this city.

3. And by the parent and what he begets.

4. Certainly, We have created the human being in hardship.

5. Does he think that no one has power over him?

6. He says, "I have spent piled-up wealth."

7. Does he think that no one sees him?

8. Have We not made for him two eyes.

9. And a tongue and two lips.

10. And guided him to the two paths?

11. Yet he has not attempted the steep ascent.

12. And what will make you understand what the steep ascent is?

13. It is the freeing of a slave.

14. Or feeding on a day of severe hunger.

15. An orphan of near kin.

16. Or a needy person in the dust.

17. Then being among those who believe, and exhort one another to patience, and exhort one another to compassion.

18. Those are the companions of the right.

19. And those who disbelieve in Our signs — they are the companions of the left.

20. Upon them is a Fire sealed shut.