The Town (Al-Balad)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
۞ Nay! I swear by this city. 1 And you shall be made free from obligation in this city-- 2 And the parent and the offspring, 3 Verily We have created man into toil and struggle. 4 Does he think that none has power over him! 5 He says, “I destroyed vast wealth.” 6 Does he think that no one has seen him? 7 Have We not given him two eyes, 8 a tongue, and two lips? 9 And shown unto him the two highways? 10 Yet he has not assaulted the steep; 11 And what have you understood, what the valley is! 12 It is the freeing of a slave 13 Or to feed in times of famine 14 an orphaned relative 15 or of a needy [stranger] lying in the dust 16 And then being among those who believed and advised one another to patience and advised one another to compassion. 17 Their place will be on the right hand. 18 And (as for) those who disbelieve in our communications, they are the people of the left hand. 19 On them will be Fire vaulted over (all round). 20