The original Arabic text of the one-hundred-sixth sūra of
the Qur’ān, the “Quraysh”, consists of a mere eighteen
words: Li-īlāf Quraysh, īlāfihim riḥlat al-shitā’ wa-l-ṣayf
fa-l-ya ‘budū rabb hādha al-bayt, al-ladhī aṭ‘amahum min jaw‘ wa-āmanahum min khawf, which can be translated as follows:“For the īlāf of the Quraysh, their īlāf of the journeys
in summer and in winter, worship the Lord of this
House, who fed them when they were hungry and who delivered
them from fear”...