Overall meaning : I swear by the Sacred City of Makkah—and you, Muhammad, are allowed to fight in it to the exclusion of all else—and I swear by every parent and their offspring that We have created man into a life of toil and hardship from the beginning of his life until his death.
Does man, then, imagine that no one has power over him? He says in a vain and ostentatious manner, having squandered his wealth on vanities and in the indulgence of his desires, ‘I have spent abundant wealth!’ Does he think that Allah does not see him when he squanders his wealth on vanities?
Have We not given him two eyes with which he can see, and a tongue and two lips, and We have shown him the two ways of good and evil?!