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1. 89:23

   And brought [within view], that Day, is Hell - that Day, man will remember, but how [i.e., what good] to him will be the remembrance?

2. 89:24

   He will say, "Oh, I wish I had sent ahead [some good] for my life."

3. 89:25

   So on that Day, none will punish [as severely] as His punishment,

4. 89:26

   And none will bind [as severely] as His binding [of the evildoers].

5. 89:27

   [To the righteous it will be said], "O reassured soul,

6. 89:28

   Return to your Lord, well-pleased and pleasing [to Him],

7. 89:29

   And enter among My [righteous] servants

8. 89:30

   And enter My Paradise."

9. 90:1

   I swear by this city [i.e., Makkah] –

10. 90:2

    And you, [O Muḥammad], are free of restriction in this city –

11. 90:3

    And [by] the father and that which was born [of him],

12. 90:4

    We have certainly created man into hardship.

13. 90:5

    Does he think that never will anyone overcome him?

14. 90:6

    He says, "I have spent wealth in abundance."

15. 90:7

    Does he think that no one has seen him?

16. 90:8

    Have We not made for him two eyes?

17. 90:9

    And a tongue and two lips?

18. 90:10

    And have shown him the two ways?

19. 90:11

    But he has not broken through the difficult pass.

20. 90:12

    And what can make you know what is [breaking through] the difficult pass?

21. 90:13

    It is the freeing of a slave

22. 90:14

    Or feeding on a day of severe hunger

23. 90:15

    An orphan of near relationship

24. 90:16

    Or a needy person in misery

25. 90:17

    And then being among those who believed and advised one another to patience and advised one another to compassion.

26. 90:18

    Those are the companions of the right.