The Town (Al-Balad)
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
۞ No, I swear by this country (Mecca), 1 And thou art a freeman of this City;- 2 And by the begetter and that which he begat, 3 Assuredly We have created man in trouble. 4 Does he think that no one can overpower him? 5 He says, “I destroyed vast wealth.” 6 Does he believe that none has seen him? 7 Have We not made for him a pair of eyes?- 8 And a tongue and two lips, 9 Have We not shown him the ways of good and evil? 10 Yet he has not scaled the height. 11 and what shall teach thee what is the steep? 12 (It is) the setting free of a slave, 13 or the feeding in times of famine 14 An orphan, of kin, 15 Or the poor in distress; 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 Hand. 18 As for those who disbelieve in Our revelations, they are the people of the left 19 with the Fire closed above them. 20