The Town (Al-Balad)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
۞ NAY! I call to witness this land 1 and you are a lodger in this country. 2 And the begetter and whom he begot. 3 Verily We have created man into toil and hardship. 4 Deemest he that none will overpower him? 5 saying, 'I have consumed wealth abundant'? 6 Does he think that no one sees him? 7 Have We not made for him two eyes? 8 a tongue, and two lips, 9 Have We not shown him the ways of good and evil? 10 So he did not quickly enter the steep valley. 11 and what shall teach thee what is the steep? 12 It is the freeing of a slave 13 or the feeding, upon a day of [one's own] hunger, 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 Such are the Companions of the Right Hand. 18 And those who disbelieve in Our signs, they are the Companions of the Left Hand; 19 [with] fire closing in upon them. 20