Middle

And thus We have made you a median [i.e., just] community that you will be witnesses over the people and the Messenger will be a witness over you. And We did not make the qiblah which you used to face except that We might make evident who would follow the Messenger from who would turn back on his heels.¹ And indeed, it is difficult except for those whom Allāh has guided. And never would Allāh have caused you to lose your faith [i.e., your previous prayers]. Indeed Allāh is, to the people, Kind and Merciful.

And [they are] those who, when they spend, do so not excessively or sparingly but are ever, between that, [justly] moderate

And he will look and see him¹ in the midst of the Hellfire.

By the racers, panting,¹

And the producers of sparks [when] striking¹

And the chargers at dawn,¹

Stirring up thereby [clouds of] dust,

Arriving thereby in the center¹ collectively,

Indeed mankind, to his Lord, is ungrateful.