The Town (Al-Balad)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
۞ No, I swear by this country (Mecca), 1 And thou shalt be allowed in yonder city 2 And (the mystic ties of) parent and child;- 3 We have indeed created man surrounded by hardships. 4 Does he, then, think that no one has power over him? 5 He says, "I have spent enormous wealth." 6 Does he then think that no one sees him? 7 Have We not made for him a pair of eyes?- 8 and a tongue and two lips? 9 And have shown him the two ways? 10 So he did not quickly enter the steep valley. 11 And what do you know what that difficult steep is? 12 It is the setting free of a slave 13 or, in a day of famine, the feeding of 14 An orphan of near relationship 15 Or a poor man cleaving to the dust. 16 and, then besides this, he be one of those who believed, and enjoined upon one another steadfastness and enjoined upon one another compassion. 17 These are the People of the Right Hand. 18 And those who denied Our signs, are the people of the left. 19 Upon them shall be a Fire that will hem them in. 20