The Town (Al-Balad)
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ I swear by yonder city 1 And thou shalt be allowed in yonder city 2 and by parent and offspring, 3 Assuredly We have created man in trouble. 4 Thinks he that none can overcome him? 5 He says, "I have spent wealth in abundance." 6 Thinks he that none sees him? 7 Did We not make two eyes for him? 8 a tongue, and two lips? 9 Have We not shown him the ways of good and evil? 10 But he has not attempted the ascent. 11 Would that you knew what Aqaba is! 12 (It is) the setting free of a slave, 13 Or the giving of food in a day of privation 14 an orphaned relative 15 and downtrodden destitute person, (so that he would be of) 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 who do so are the people of the right hand, 18 and [as for] those who are bent on denying the truth of Our revelations, they are the people of the left hand, 19 Upon them is a fire, in which they are imprisoned, closed and shut above them. 20