The Town (Al-Balad)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ No! I swear by this land, 1 in which you are now living 2 And by the begetter and that which he begat, 3 We have certainly created man into hardship. 4 Thinks he that none can overcome him? 5 (He boasts and shows off) saying, "I have spent a great deal of money (for the cause of God)". 6 Does he think that no one sees him? 7 Have We not given him two eyes, 8 And a tongue, and a pair of lips?- 9 and guided him on the two highways? 10 Yet, he has not entered into Aqaba 11 And what will make you comprehend what the uphill road is? 12 The freeing of a slave! 13 Or giving food in a day of hunger (famine), 14 The orphan near in relationship, 15 or to a needy person in distress; 16 and, then besides this, he be one of those who believed, and enjoined upon one another steadfastness and enjoined upon one another compassion. 17 These are the people of the right. 18 But those who disbelieve in Our verses, they are the Companions of the Left, 19 On them is fire closed over. 20