The Town (Al-Balad)
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ I swear by this city (Makkah); 1 – this city wherein you have been rendered violable– 2 and by parent and offspring, 3 Verily, We have created man in toil. 4 Thinks he that none can overcome him? 5 He says, "I have spent enormous wealth." 6 Does he believe that none has seen him? 7 Have We not appointed to him two eyes, 8 And a tongue and two lips? 9 And have shown him the two ways? 10 But he has not broken through the difficult pass. 11 And what do you know what that difficult steep is? 12 It is freeing the neck, 13 And to feed in the day of hunger. 14 to an orphan near of kin; 15 and downtrodden destitute person, (so that he would be of) 16 And to be of those who believe, and urge upon one another to persevere, and urge upon each other to be kind. 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 Upon them is a fire, in which they are imprisoned, closed and shut above them. 20