The Town (Al-Balad)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
۞ I swear by this city (Makkah); 1 And you, [O Muhammad], are free of restriction in this city - 2 And (the mystic ties of) parent and child;- 3 Certainly We have created man to be in distress. 4 Does he, then, think that no one has power over him? 5 And he saith: I have destroyed vast wealth: 6 Does he think that none has observed him? 7 Did We not grant him two eyes, 8 and a tongue, and two lips, 9 And shown unto him the two highways? 10 So he did not quickly enter the steep valley. 11 and what shall teach thee what is the steep? 12 To free a neck (from the burden of debt or slavery), 13 Or the giving of food in a day of hunger 14 To an orphan near of kin. 15 Or of a homeless needy person! 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 Such are the Companions of the Right Hand. 18 As for those who rejected Our Signs, they are the People of the Left Hand. 19 [with] fire closing in upon them. 20