# Sura  90 - The Soil

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> SURA XC (90) - The Soil   (Mecca - 20 Verses)               (XVIII - 35)     
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>        In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
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>        I need not to swear by this Soil,
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>        This soil on which thou dost dwell,
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>        Or by sire and offspring!
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>        Surely in trouble have we created man.
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>        What! thinketh he that no one hath power over him?
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>        "I have wasted," saith he, "enormous riches!|
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>        What! thinketh he that no one regardeth him?
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>        What! have we not made him eyes,
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>        And tongue, and lips,
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> 90:10  And guided him to the two highways?
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>        Yet he attempted not the steep.
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>        And who shall teach thee what the steep is?
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>        It is to ransom the captive,
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>        Or to feed in the day of famine,
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>        The orphan who is near of kin, or the poor that lieth in the dust;
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>        Beside this, to be of those who believe, and enjoin stedfastness on each
> other, and enjoin compassion on each other.
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>        These shall be the people of the right hand:
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>        While they who disbelieve our signs,
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>        Shall be the people of the left.
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> 90:20  Around them the fire shall close.
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> — *Sura  90 - The Soil*