The Town (Al-Balad)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
۞ I swear by this city (Mecca) – 1 And thou shalt be allowed in yonder city 2 And the begetter and that which he begat, 3 Assuredly We have created man in trouble. 4 Does he think that no one can overpower him? 5 He boasts, "I have spent wealth abundant!" 6 Does man think that no one saw him? 7 Have We not given him two eyes, 8 And a tongue and two lips, 9 And did We not guide him to the two elevated things? 10 But he hath not attempted the Ascent - 11 And what do you know what that difficult steep is? 12 (It is) Freeing a neck (slave, etc.) 13 Or to feed in times of famine 14 to an orphan near of kin 15 Or to the indigent (down) in the dust. 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 On them will be Fire vaulted over (all round). 20