Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali, Muhammad Muhsin Khan — 601

103:1 1. By Al-‘Asr (the time).

103:2 2. Verily, man is in loss,

103:3 3. Except those who believe (in Islâmic Monotheism) and do righteous good deeds, and recommend one another to the truth [i.e. order one another to perform all kinds of good deeds (Al-Ma‘ruf) which Allâh has ordained, and abstain from all kinds of sins and evil deeds (Al-Munkar which Allâh has forbidden], and recommend one another to patience (for the sufferings, harms, and injuries which one may encounter in Allâh’s Cause during preaching His religion of Islâmic Monotheism or Jihâd).

104:1 1. Woe to every slanderer and backbiter.[1]

104:2 2. Who has gathered wealth and counted it.

104:3 3. He thinks that his wealth will make him last forever!

104:4 4. Nay! Verily, he will be thrown into the crushing Fire.

104:5 5. And what will make you know what the crushing Fire is?

104:6 6. The fire of Allâh kindled,

104:7 7. Which leaps up over the hearts,

104:8 8. Verily, it shall be closed upon them,

104:9 9. In pillars stretched forth (i.e. they will be punished in the Fire with pillars).

105:1 1. Have you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) not seen how your Lord dealt with the owners of the Elephant? [The Elephant army which came from Yemen under the command of Abrahah Al-Ashram intending to destroy the Ka‘bah at Makkah].

105:2 2. Did He not make their plot go astray?

105:3 3. And He sent against them birds, in flocks,

105:4 4. Striking them with stones of Sijjîl (baked clay).

105:5 5. And He made them like (an empty field of) stalks (of which the corn has been eaten up by cattle).[1]