The Town (Al-Balad)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ Nay, I swear by this city - 1 And thou art an indweller of this city - 2 And by the begetter (i.e. Adam) and that which he begot (i.e. his progeny); 3 We have certainly created man into hardship. 4 Thinks he that none can overcome him? 5 He will say: 'I have destroyed a vast wealth' 6 Thinks he that none sees him? 7 Have We not made for him a pair of eyes?- 8 a tongue, and two lips, 9 and shown him the two paths? 10 Yet he attempteth not the steep, 11 And what do you know what that difficult steep is? 12 It is freeing someone's neck from slavery; 13 Or, feeding, in a day of privation, 14 to an orphaned relative 15 Or to the poor man lying in the dust. 16 so that he becomes one of those who believe, charge each other to be patient, and charge each other to be merciful. 17 They are the people of the right hand (and will succeed). 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 who will be engulfed in the fire. 20