The Town (Al-Balad)
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ No, I swear by this country (Mecca), 1 And thou art an indweller of this city - 2 And the begetter and whom he begot. 3 Assuredly We have created man in trouble. 4 Does he think that never will anyone overcome him? 5 He shall say: I have wasted much wealth. 6 Thinks he that none sees him? 7 Did We not give him two eyes, 8 and a tongue, and a pair of lips, 9 And shown unto him the two highways? 10 Yet, he has not entered into Aqaba 11 What could let you know what the height is! 12 (It is) Freeing a neck (slave, etc.) 13 Or giving food in a day of hunger (famine), 14 of an orphaned relative 15 Or some poor wretch in misery, 16 And to be of those who believe and exhort one another to perseverance and exhort one another to pity. 17 Their place will be on the right hand. 18 But those who disbelieve in Our verses, they are the Companions of the Left, 19 and the Fire will close in on them. 20