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humiliated me!"
089.017 Nay, nay! but ye honour not the orphans!
089.018 Nor do ye encourage one another to feed the poor!-
089.019 And ye devour inheritance - all with greed,
089.020 And ye love wealth with inordinate love!
089.021 Nay! When the earth is pounded to powder,
089.022 And thy Lord cometh, and His angels, rank upon rank,
089.023 And Hell, that Day, is brought (face to face),- on that Day will man remember, but how will that remembrance
profit him?
089.024 He will say: "Ah! Would that I had sent forth (good deeds) for (this) my (Future) Life!"
089.025 For, that Day, His Chastisement will be such as none (else) can inflict,
089.026 And His bonds will be such as none (other) can bind.
089.027 (To the righteous soul will be said:) "O (thou) soul, in (complete) rest and satisfaction!
089.028 "Come back thou to thy Lord,- well pleased (thyself), and well-pleasing unto Him!
089.029 "Enter thou, then, among My devotees!
089.030 "Yea, enter thou My Heaven!
THE CITY, THIS COUNTRYSIDE, CHAPTER NO. 090
090.001 I do call to witness this City;-
090.002 And thou art a freeman of this City;-
090.003 And (the mystic ties of) parent and child;-
090.004 Verily We have created man into toil and struggle.
090.005 Thinketh he, that none hath power over him?
090.006 He may say (boastfully); Wealth have I squandered in abundance!
090.007 Thinketh he that none beholdeth him?
090.008 Have We not made for him a pair of eyes?-
090.009 And a tongue, and a pair of lips?-
090.010 And shown him the two highways?
090.011 But he hath made no haste on the path that is steep.
090.012 And what will explain to thee the path that is steep?-
090.013 (It is:) freeing the bondman;
090.014 Or the giving of food in a day of privation
090.015 To the orphan with claims of relationship,
090.016 Or to the indigent (down) in the dust.
090.017 Then will he be of those who believe, and enjoin patience, (constancy, and self-restraint), and enjoin deeds
of kindness and compassion.
090.018 Such are the Companions of the Right Hand.
090.019 But those who reject Our Signs, they are the (unhappy) Companions of the Left Hand.
090.020 On them will be Fire vaulted over (all round).
THE SUN, CHAPTER NO. 091
091.001 By the Sun and his (glorious) splendour;
091.002 By the Moon as she follows him;
091.003 By the Day as it shows up (the Sun's) glory;
091.004 By the Night as it conceals it;
091.005 By the Firmament and its (wonderful) structure;
091.006 By the Earth and its (wide) expanse:
091.007 By the Soul, and the proportion and order given to it;
091.008 And its enlightenment as to its wrong and its right;-