The Town (Al-Balad)
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ No! I swear by this land, 1 And thou shalt be allowed in yonder city 2 And (the mystic ties of) parent and child;- 3 that We have created man into a life of toil and trial. 4 What, does he think none has power over him, 5 (He boasts and shows off) saying, "I have spent a great deal of money (for the cause of God)". 6 Thinketh he that none beholdeth him? 7 Have We not made for him two eyes? 8 And a tongue and two lips, 9 and shown him the two paths? 10 So he did not quickly enter the steep valley. 11 And what have you understood, what the valley is! 12 The freeing of a slave! 13 Or feeding on a day of severe hunger 14 To an orphan near of kin. 15 Or to a Miskin (poor) afflicted with misery. 16 and, then besides this, he be one of those who believed, and enjoined upon one another steadfastness and enjoined upon one another compassion. 17 They are those on the Right Hand (the dwellers of Paradise), 18 But those who deny Our revelations are the people of the left hand: 19 and the Fire will close in on them. 20