The Town (Al-Balad)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
۞ Nay! I swear by this city. 1 and you are a lodger in this country. 2 And the begetter and whom he begot. 3 We have certainly created man into hardship. 4 Thinketh he that none hath power over him? 5 He will say: 'I have destroyed a vast wealth' 6 Does he think that none has observed him? 7 Have We not given him two eyes, 8 and a tongue and two lips? 9 And pointed out to him the two conspicuous ways? 10 Yet he attempteth not the steep, 11 How will you comprehend what the Steep ascent is? -- 12 The freeing of a slave! 13 or the feeding, upon a day of [one's own] hunger, 14 An orphan near of kin, 15 or to a needy person in distress; 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 They are the people of the right hand (and will succeed). 18 But they who disbelieved in Our signs - those are the companions of the left. 19 [with] fire closing in upon them. 20