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Chapters from the Koran.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

Mecca Suras

The Chapter of the Land


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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