TWO HEIGHTS

Two Heights ~ 90 ~ 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)