The Town (Al-Balad)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ I do not (need to) swear by this town (Mecca) 1 in which you are now living 2 And by the giver of birth, and whom he fathered, 3 We have certainly created man into hardship. 4 Thinks he that none can overcome him? 5 He says, "I have spent enormous wealth." 6 Thinketh he that none beholdeth him? 7 Have We not given him two eyes, 8 And a tongue and two lips, 9 and guided him on the two highways? 10 Yet he has not scaled the height. 11 and what shall teach thee what is the steep? 12 It is freeing the neck, 13 or, in a day of famine, the feeding of 14 An orphan of near relationship 15 Or to the indigent (down) in the dust. 16 Then he became one of those who believed, and recommended one another to perseverance and patience, and (also) recommended one another to pity and compassion. 17 Those are the companions of the right. 18 But those who reject Our Signs, they are the (unhappy) Companions of the Left Hand. 19 Fire will be an awning over them. 20