The Qur’an For All Humanity
Two Heights
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TWO HEIGHTS
I swear by this city, (and you are a resident of it),
by the begetter, and all whom he begot: We created
man to try him with afflictions.
Does he think that none has power over him? He
will (boastfully) say: ‘I have squandered vast
wealth.’ Does he think that none observes him?
Have We not given him two eyes, a tongue, and
two lips, and shown him the two highways (of
good and evil)? Yet he would not scale the Height.
Would that you knew what the Height is! It is the
freeing of a bondsman; and feeding, in the day of
famine, of an orphaned relation or a needy man in
distress; to be one of those who believe, and enjoin
patience and mercy.
Those who do this shall stand on the right hand;
but those who deny Our revelations shall stand on
the left, with Hell-fire close above them.
(The Qur’an 90:1-20)
