The Town (Al-Balad)
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
۞ I do not (need to) swear by this town (Mecca) 1 – this city wherein you have been rendered violable– 2 by the begetter, and that he begot, 3 We have certainly created man into hardship. 4 Does he think that no one has power over him? 5 He says: "I have wasted a great deal of wealth." 6 Thinketh he that none beholdeth him? 7 Have We not made for him a pair of eyes? 8 And a tongue and two lips? 9 And shown unto him the two highways? 10 Yet he has not scaled the height. 11 And what will make you comprehend what the uphill road is? 12 (It is) the freeing of a slave, 13 Or the giving of food in a day of privation 14 Of a related orphan, 15 or some needy person in distress, 16 And then being among those who believed and advised one another to patience and advised one another to compassion. 17 Their place will be on the right hand. 18 And those who denied Our signs, are the people of the left. 19 over them is a Fire covered down. 20