The Town (Al-Balad)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
۞ NAY! I call to witness this land 1 And you are free to live upon it, -- 2 by the begetter, and that he begot, 3 We verily have created man in an atmosphere: 4 Thinketh he that none hath power over him? 5 He says, "I have spent enormous wealth." 6 Thinketh he that none beholdeth him? 7 Have We not given him two eyes, 8 And a tongue, and a pair of lips?- 9 and guided him on the two highways? 10 But he would not attempt the uphill road, 11 and what shall teach thee what is the steep? 12 It is the freeing of a slave 13 Or giving food in a day of hunger (famine), 14 Of a related orphan, 15 Or a poor man cleaving to the dust. 16 And to be of those who believe and exhort one another to perseverance and exhort one another to pity. 17 They are the people of the right hand (and will succeed). 18 But they who disbelieved in Our signs - those are the companions of the left. 19 The Fire will vault them over. 20