The Town (Al-Balad)
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
۞ Nay, I swear by this city - 1 and you are a lodger in this country. 2 and [I call to witness] parent and offspring: 3 Assuredly We have created man in trouble. 4 Thinketh he, that none hath power over him? 5 He says: “I have squandered enormous wealth.” 6 Does he then think that no one sees him? 7 Did We not assign unto him two eyes 8 And a tongue and two lips, 9 And shown him the two highways? 10 But he did not venture to scale the difficult steep. 11 What will explain to you what the ascent is? 12 It is the setting free of a slave 13 or giving food upon a day of hunger 14 An orphan of near relationship 15 and downtrodden destitute person, (so that he would be of) 16 and being, withal, of those who have attained to faith, and who enjoin upon one another patience in adversity, and enjoin upon one another compassion. 17 These are the People of 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 Over them shall be Fire closing round. 20