The Town (Al-Balad)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
۞ I do call to witness this City;- 1 And you are free to live upon it, -- 2 And by the giver of birth, and whom he fathered, 3 indeed, We created man in trouble. 4 Does he think that none has power over him! 5 And he saith: I have destroyed vast wealth: 6 Thinketh he that none beholdeth him? 7 Did We not make two eyes for him? 8 And a tongue, and a pair of lips?- 9 And shown him the two ways (good and evil)? 10 But he has not broken through the difficult pass. 11 And what will make you know the path that is steep? 12 It is freeing someone's neck from slavery; 13 or giving food on a day of hunger 14 of an orphaned relative 15 Or a needy person in misery 16 And then being among those who believed and advised one another to patience and advised one another to compassion. 17 These are the people of the right hand. 18 As for those who disbelieve in Our revelations, they are the people of the left 19 On them will be Fire vaulted over (all round). 20