Document 2: The following is an excerpt from the Quran (Surah 92 The Night al Lail). "The Night"
In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
By the night, when she lets fall her darkness, and by the radiant day!
By Him that created the male and the female, your endeavors have different ends!
For him that gives in charity and guards himself against evil and believes in goodness, We shall
smooth the path of salvation: but for him that neither gives nor takes and disbelieves in
goodness, We shall smooth the path of affliction. When he breathes his last, his riches
will not avail him.
It is for Us to give guidance. Ours is the life of this world. Ours the life to come. I warn you,
then, of the blazing fire, in which none shall bum save the hardened sinner, who denies the
truth and gives no heed. But the good man who purifies himself by almsgiving shall keep
away from it and so shall he that does good works for the sake of the Most High, not in
recompense for a favor. Such men shall be content.
Q: What two attributes of Allah are identified in the opening line of "The Night"?
Q: How will Allah punish those who deny the truth?