The Town (Al-Balad)
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
۞ No! I swear by this land, 1 And thou art an indweller of this city - 2 And (the mystic ties of) parent and child;- 3 that We have created man into a life of toil and trial. 4 Thinketh he, that none hath power over him? 5 He says, "I have spent wealth in abundance." 6 Does he think that none has observed him? 7 Did We not make two eyes for him? 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 will explain to thee the path that is steep?- 12 It is the setting free of a slave 13 Or to feed in times of famine 14 to an orphaned relative 15 Or some poor wretch in misery, 16 And to be of those who believe and exhort one another to perseverance and exhort one another to pity. 17 These are the People of the Right Hand. 18 and [as for] those who are bent on denying the truth of Our revelations, they are the people of the left hand, 19 Over them shall be Fire closing round. 20