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90:1  I swear by this city
90:2  -and you are a free dweller in this city­
90:3  and by the begetter and the begotten:
90:4  surely We have created humanity in difficulty.
90:5  Do they think no one has power over them?
90:6  They say they have spent much wealth;
90:7  do they think no one sees them?
90:8  Have we not given them two eyes,
90:9  and a tongue, and two lips?
90:10  And We showed them the two highways.
90:11  But they have not embarked upon the steep road.
90:12  Arid what will convey to you what the steep road is?
90:13  Emancipating a slave,
90:14  or feeding on a day of hunger
90:15  an orphaned relative
90:16  or a pauper in misery.
90:17  Then one will be of those who believe, and enjoin patience on one another, and exhort each other to kindness:
90:18  they are the company on the Right Hand.
90:19  But those who repudiate our signs, they are the company on the Left Hand:
90:20  over them will be a vault of fire.