The Town (Al-Balad)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
۞ No, I swear by this country (Mecca), 1 in which you are now living 2 And the parent and the offspring, 3 that We have created man into a life of toil and trial. 4 Thinketh he, that none hath power over him? 5 He may say (boastfully); Wealth have I squandered in abundance! 6 Deemest he that none beholdeth him? 7 Did We not assign unto him two eyes 8 a tongue, and two lips? 9 And guide him to the parting of the mountain ways? 10 Yet he attempteth not the steep, 11 And what do you know what that difficult steep is? 12 (It is) the freeing of a slave, 13 Or the feeding on a day of hunger. 14 To the orphan with claims of relationship, 15 Or to the indigent (down) in the dust. 16 And moreover to be of those who accepted faith, and who urged patience to one another and who urged graciousness to one another. 17 These are the people of the right. 18 But those who disbelieved in Our Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.), they are those on the Left Hand (the dwellers of Hell). 19 On them will be Fire vaulted over (all round). 20