The Town (Al-Balad)
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
۞ No! I swear by this land, 1 in which you are now living 2 And the begetter and that which he begat, 3 that We have created man into a life of toil and trial. 4 Does he think then that no one has power over him? 5 He will say: 'I have destroyed a vast wealth' 6 Thinketh he that none beholdeth him? 7 Have We not made for him a pair of eyes?- 8 and a tongue, and a pair of lips, 9 And did We not guide him to the two elevated things? 10 Yet he has not assaulted the steep; 11 And what will make you know the path that is steep? 12 The freeing of a slave, 13 or the feeding, upon a day of [one's own] hunger, 14 to an orphan near of kin; 15 Or of a homeless needy person! 16 Then he became of those who believed and enjoined on each other steadfastness and enjoined on each other compassion. 17 Such are they that have attained to righteousness; 18 And those who denied Our signs, are the people of the left. 19 Over them shall be Fire closing round. 20