The Town (Al-Balad)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
۞ I swear by this city -- 1 And thou art an indweller of this city - 2 and I swear by the parent and his offspring: 3 We have certainly created man into hardship. 4 Deemest he that none will overpower him? 5 He will say: 'I have destroyed a vast wealth' 6 Thinks he that none sees him? 7 Have We not made for him a pair of eyes? 8 and a tongue, and a pair of lips, 9 and shown him the two paths? 10 But he hath made no haste on the path that is steep. 11 And what shall make thee understand that which the steep is? 12 It is the freeing of a slave 13 or giving food on a day of hunger 14 Of a related orphan, 15 Or a needy person in misery 16 Then he became of those who believed and enjoined on each other steadfastness and enjoined on each other compassion. 17 Those are the companions of the right. 18 But those who disbelieve in Our verses, they are the Companions of the Left, 19 Upon them shall be a Fire that will hem them in. 20