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[1] NAY! I call to witness this land –
[2] this land in which thou art free to dwell -
[3] and [I call to witness] parent and offspring:
[4] Verily, We have created man into [a life of] pain, toil and trial.
[5] Does he, then, think that no one has power over him?
[6] He boasts, "I have spent wealth abundant!"
[7] Does he, then, think that no one sees him?
[8] Have We not given him two eyes,
[9] and a tongue, and a pair of lips,
[10] and shown him the two highways [of good and evil]?
[11] But he would not try to ascend the steep uphill road...
[12] And what could make thee conceive what it is, that steep uphill road?
[13] [It is] the freeing of one's neck [from the burden of sin],
[14] or the feeding, upon a day of [one's own] hunger,
[15] of an orphan near of kin,
[16] or of a needy [stranger] lying in the dust –
[17] 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.
[18] Such are they that have attained to righteousness;
[19] whereas those who are bent on denying the truth of Our messages – they are such as have lost themselves in evil,
[20] [with] fire closing in upon them.