The Town (Al-Balad)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
۞ I swear by this city (Mecca) – 1 – this city wherein you have been rendered violable– 2 And the begetter and that which he begat, 3 We verily have created man in an atmosphere: 4 Does he think that none has power over him! 5 He says: “I have squandered enormous wealth.” 6 What, does he think none has seen him? 7 Did We not assign unto him two eyes 8 and a tongue and two lips? 9 And guide him to the parting of the mountain ways? 10 But he did not venture to scale the difficult steep. 11 And what could make thee conceive what it is, that steep uphill road? 12 (It is) the setting free of a slave, 13 Or giving food in a day of hunger (famine), 14 An orphan, of kin, 15 Or a poor man cleaving to 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 Those are the companions of the right. 18 But those who disbelieve in Our verses, they are the Companions of the Left, 19 The Fire will be shut over them (i.e. they will be enveloped by the Fire without any opening or window or outlet. 20