The Town (Al-Balad)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ No! I swear by this land, 1 – this city wherein you have been rendered violable– 2 and I swear by the parent and his offspring: 3 Verily We have created man into toil and struggle. 4 What, does he think none has power over him, 5 He shall say: I have wasted much wealth. 6 Thinketh he that none beholdeth him? 7 Have We not given him two eyes, 8 And a tongue and two lips? 9 and shown him the two paths? 10 But he has not broken through the difficult pass. 11 And what shall make thee understand that which the steep is? 12 (It is) the freeing of a slave, 13 Or to feed in times of famine 14 An orphan, of kin, 15 Or a poor man cleaving to the dust. 16 And to be of those who believe, and urge upon one another to persevere, and urge upon each other to be kind. 17 Those are the Companions of the Right. 18 As for those who disbelieve in Our revelations, they are the people of the left 19 who will be engulfed in the fire. 20