Chapters from the Koran.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| Mecca Suras |
| | | The Chapter of the Land |
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| IN the name of the merciful and compassionate God. | 1 |
| I need not swear by the Lord of this land, 1 and thou a dweller in this land! 2 | 2 |
| Nor by the begetter and what he begets! | 3 |
| We have surely created man in trouble. | 4 |
| Does he think that none can do aught against him? | 5 |
| He says, ‘I have wasted wealth in plenty;’ does he think that no one sees him? | 6 |
| Have we not made for him two eyes and a tongue, and two lips? and guided him in the two highways? but he will not attempt the steep! | 7 |
| And what shall make thee know what the steep is? It is freeing captives, or feeding on the day of famine, an orphan who is akin, or a poor man who lies in the dust; and again (it is) to be of these who believe and encourage each other to patience, and encourage each other to mercy,—these are the fellows of the right! | 8 |
| But those who disbelieve in our signs, they are the fellows of the left, for them is fire that closes in! | 9 |
| | | Note 1. I. e. the sacred territory of Mecca. [back] |
| Note 2. Or, ‘art at liberty to act as thou pleasest.’ [back] |
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