The Town (Al-Balad)
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ No! I swear by this land, 1 and you are dwelling in this city -- 2 And the begetter and whom he begot. 3 Verily We have created man into toil and struggle. 4 Does he think that none has power over him! 5 He says: "I have wasted a great deal of wealth." 6 Does he think that no one sees him? 7 Did We not give him two eyes, 8 And a tongue and a pair of lips? 9 And have shown him the two ways? 10 But he hath made no haste on the path that is steep. 11 And what will make you comprehend what the uphill road is? 12 (It is) the setting free of a slave, 13 or, in a day of famine, the feeding of 14 Of a related orphan, 15 or to a destitute lying in dust; 16 Then he became of those who believed and enjoined on each other steadfastness and enjoined on each other compassion. 17 They are the people of the right hand (and will succeed). 18 But those who reject Our Signs, they are the (unhappy) Companions of the Left Hand. 19 Upon them is a fire, in which they are imprisoned, closed and shut above them. 20