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90:1  Nay, I swear by this Town.
90:2  And you a dweller (Has free law authority) in this town.
90:3  And by a father and what he fathered.
90:4  Already We created the human, in suffering.
90:5  Does he consider that no one is capable against him?
90:6  He says, “I have destroyed an abundant accumulated’ money.”
90:7  Does he consider that no one saw him?
90:8  Did We not set up for him, two eyes?
90:9  And a tongue, and two lips?
90:10  And We guided him, the two highways (Good and evil)?
90:11  So he did not break into the Obstacle.
90:12  And what cognizes you, what the Obstacle is?
90:13  A freeing of a Neck (Slave).
90:14  Or feeding on a day possessor of famine.
90:15  An orphan possessor of consanguinity.
90:16  Or a needy possessor of indigence.
90:17  Then he was among those who believed, and enjoined by patience, and enjoined by the mercy.
90:18  Those are the right-side companions (The Happiness).
90:19  And those who disbelieved with Our verses, they are the companions of the inauspiciousness.
90:20  Upon them is a padlocked Fire.