﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><sura id="89">
  <aya id="1" text="By the dawn;" />
  <aya id="2" text="By the ten nights (i.e. the first ten days of the month of Dhul-Hîjjah) ," />
  <aya id="3" text="And by the even and the odd (of all the creations of Allâh) ." />
  <aya id="4" text="And by the night when it departs." />
  <aya id="5" text="There is indeed in them (the above oaths) sufficient proofs for men of understanding (and that, they should avoid all kinds of sins and disbeliefs, etc.)!" />
  <aya id="6" text="Did you (O Muhammad (Peace be upon him)) not see (thought) how your Lord dealt with 'Ad (people)?" />
  <aya id="7" text="Who were very tall like lofty pillars," />
  <aya id="8" text="The like of which were not created in the land?" />
  <aya id="9" text="And (with) Thamûd (people), who cut (hewed) out rocks in the valley (to make dwellings)?" />
  <aya id="10" text="And (with) Fir'aun (Pharaoh), who had pegs (who used to torture men by binding them to pegs)?" />
  <aya id="11" text="Who did transgress beyond bounds in the lands (in the disobedience of Allâh)." />
  <aya id="12" text="And made therein much mischief." />
  <aya id="13" text="So your Lord poured on them different kinds of severe torment." />
  <aya id="14" text="Verily, your Lord is Ever Watchful (over them)." />
  <aya id="15" text="As for man, when his Lord tries him by giving him honour and gifts, then he says (puffed up): &amp;quot;My Lord has honoured me.&amp;quot;" />
  <aya id="16" text="But when He tries him, by straitening his means of life, he says: &amp;quot;My Lord has humiliated me!&amp;quot;" />
  <aya id="17" text="Nay! But you treat not the orphans with kindness and generosity (i.e. you neither treat them well, nor give them their exact right of inheritance)!" />
  <aya id="18" text="And urge not on the feeding of &lt;I&gt;AlMiskîn&lt;/I&gt; (the poor)!" />
  <aya id="19" text="And you devour inheritance all with greed," />
  <aya id="20" text="And you love wealth with much love!" />
  <aya id="21" text="Nay! When the earth is ground to powder," />
  <aya id="22" text="And your Lord comes with the angels in rows," />
  <aya id="23" text="And Hell will be brought near that Day. On that Day will man remember, but how will that remembrance (then) avail him?" />
  <aya id="24" text="He will say: &amp;quot;Alas! Would that I had sent forth (good deeds) for (this) my life!&amp;quot;" />
  <aya id="25" text="So on that Day, none will punish as He will punish." />
  <aya id="26" text="And none will bind as He will bind." />
  <aya id="27" text="(It will be said to the pious): &amp;quot;O (you) the one in (complete) rest and satisfaction!" />
  <aya id="28" text="&amp;quot;Come back to your Lord, Well-pleased (yourself) and well-pleasing unto Him!" />
  <aya id="29" text="&amp;quot;Enter you, then, among My honoured slaves," />
  <aya id="30" text="&amp;quot;And enter you My Paradise!&amp;quot;" />
</sura>