The Town (Al-Balad)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
۞ I swear by this city, Makkah - 1 And thou art a freeman of this City;- 2 And (the mystic ties of) parent and child;- 3 That We created man in toil and trouble. 4 Does he think that never will anyone overcome him? 5 He says: "I have wasted a great deal of wealth." 6 Thinks he that none sees him? 7 Have We not made for him a pair of eyes?- 8 And a tongue and two lips, 9 and guided him on the two paths (of good and evil)? 10 But he hath not attempted the Ascent - 11 What will explain to you what the ascent is? 12 (It is) the setting free of a slave, 13 Or feeding on a day of severe hunger 14 to an orphan near of kin; 15 or to a destitute lying in dust; 16 then that he become of those who believe and counsel each other to be steadfast, and counsel each other to be merciful. 17 Those who do so are the people of the right hand, 18 But those who disbelieve in Our verses, they are the Companions of the Left, 19 [with] fire closing in upon them. 20