The Town (Al-Balad)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
۞ No, I swear by this country (Mecca), 1 this land in which thou art free to dwell 2 And by the begetter and that which he begat, 3 that We have created the human being to face a great deal of hardship. 4 Thinks he that none can overcome him? 5 He says, "I have spent wealth in abundance." 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 shown him the two paths? 10 But he hath not attempted the Ascent - 11 And what will make you comprehend what the uphill road is? 12 (It is) the freeing of a slave, 13 or, in a day of famine, the feeding of 14 an orphaned relative 15 or some needy person in distress, 16 Then he became of those who believed and enjoined on each other steadfastness and enjoined on each other compassion. 17 Their place will be on 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