The Town (Al-Balad)
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
۞ No, I swear by this country (Mecca), 1 And you are free to live upon it, -- 2 And (the mystic ties of) parent and child;- 3 indeed, We created man in trouble. 4 Does man think that no one will ever have power over him? 5 He saith: I have wasted riches plenteous. 6 Thinks he that none sees him? 7 Have We not made for him two eyes 8 and a tongue, and a pair of lips, 9 And showed him two highways (of good and evil)? 10 But he hath not attempted the Ascent - 11 And what have you understood, what the valley is! 12 It is the freeing of a slave; 13 or the feeding in times of famine 14 To an orphan, having relationship, 15 or to a needy person in distress; 16 so that he becomes one of those who believe, charge each other to be patient, and charge each other to be merciful. 17 These are the people of the right hand. 18 But those who reject Our Signs, they are the (unhappy) Companions of the Left Hand. 19 over them is a Fire covered down. 20