and showed him the two ways?

Yet he did not make his way through the steep course,

And what may let you know what the steep course is?

(It is) freeing of the neck of a slave,

or giving food in a day of hunger

to an orphan near of kin,

or to a needy person lying in dust

then he did not join those who believe and advise each other to be patient and advise each other to be merciful.

Those are the People of the Right Hand. (i.e. their books of deeds will be given in their right hands)

As for those who reject Our verses, they are the People of the Left Hand. (i.e. their books of deeds will be given in their left hand.)