Al-Asr (the declining day, eventide, the epoch)
Total Verses:  3 Revealed At:  Makka

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In the name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.

103.001 Y:  By (the Token of) Time (through the ages),

P:  By the declining day,

S:  I swear by the time,

103.002 Y:  Verily Man is in loss,

P:  Lo! man is a state of loss,

S:  Most surely man is in loss,

103.003 Y:  Except such as have Faith, and do righteous deeds, and (join together) in the mutual teaching of Truth, and of Patience and Constancy.

P:  Save those who believe and do good works, and exhort one another to truth and exhort one another to endurance.

S:  Except those who believe and do good, and enjoin on each other truth, and enjoin on each other patience.

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Chapter 104: 

Al-HUMAZA (the traducer, the gossipmonger)
Total Verses:  9 Revealed At:  Makka

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In the name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.

104.001 Y:  Woe to every (kind of) scandal-monger and-backbiter,

P:  Woe unto every slandering traducer,

S:  Woe to every slanderer, defamer,

104.002 Y:  Who pileth up wealth and layeth it by,

P:  Who hath gathered wealth (of this world) and arranged it.

S:  Who amasses wealth and considers it a provision (against mishap);

104.003 Y:  Thinking that his wealth would make him last for ever!

P:  He thinketh that his wealth will render him immortal.

S:  He thinks that his wealth will make him immortal.

104.004 Y:  By no means!  He will be sure to be thrown into That which Breaks to Pieces,

P:  Nay, but verily he will be flung to the Consuming One.

S:  Nay! he shall most certainly be hurled into the crushing disaster,

104.005 Y:  And what will explain to thee That which Breaks to Pieces?

P:  Ah, what will convey unto thee what the Consuming One is!

S:  And what will make you realize what the crushing disaster is?

104.006 Y:  (It is) the Fire of (the Wrath of) Allah kindled (to a blaze),

P:  (It is) the fire of Allah, kindled,

S:  It is the fire kindled by Allah,

104.007 Y:  The which doth mount (right) to the Hearts: 

P:  Which leapeth up over the hearts (of men).

S:  Which rises above the hearts.

104.008 Y:  It shall be made into a vault over them,

P:  Lo! it is closed in on them

S:  Surely it shall be closed over upon them,