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90:1  I swear by this city —
90:2  and you are resident in this city —
90:3  and by a father and what he fathered,
90:4  We created man in trouble.
90:5  Does he imagine that no one has power over him?
90:6  He says, ´I have consumed vast quantities of wealth.´
90:7  Does he imagine that no one has seen him?
90:8  Have We not given him two eyes,
90:9  and a tongue and two lips
90:10  and shown him the two highways?
90:11  But he has not braved the steep ascent.
90:12  What will convey to you what the steep ascent is?
90:13  It is freeing a slave
90:14  or feeding on a day of hunger
90:15  an orphaned relative
90:16  or a poor man in the dust;
90:17  then to be one of those who have iman and urge each other to steadfastness and urge each other to compassion.
90:18  Those are the Companions of the Right.
90:19  Those who reject Our signs, they are the Companions of the Left.
90:20  Above them is a sealed vault of Fire.