The Town (Al-Balad)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
۞ I swear by this city, Makkah - 1 this land in which thou art free to dwell 2 and I swear by the parent and his offspring: 3 Verily We have created man into toil and hardship. 4 Does He think that no one will ever have control over him? 5 He says, "I have spent enormous wealth." 6 What, does he think none has seen him? 7 Have We not made for him two eyes 8 And a tongue and two lips, 9 and shown him the two highways [of good and evil]? 10 But he did not venture to scale the difficult steep. 11 And what can make you know what is [breaking through] the difficult pass? 12 (It is) Freeing a neck (slave, etc.) 13 Or, feeding, in a day of privation, 14 Of a related orphan, 15 or some needy person in distress, 16 Then he is of those who believe and charge one another to show patience, and charge one another to show compassion. 17 Those who do so are the people of the right hand, 18 But those who disbelieved in Our Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.), they are those on the Left Hand (the dwellers of Hell). 19 On them will be Fire vaulted over (all round). 20