The Town (Al-Balad)
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
۞ No! I swear by this land, 1 And you, [O Muhammad], are free of restriction in this city - 2 And (the mystic ties of) parent and child;- 3 Verily, We have created man into [a life of] pain, toil and trial. 4 Does he think that no one has power over him? 5 He will say: 'I have destroyed a vast wealth' 6 Does he think that no one sees him? 7 Have We not made for him two eyes? 8 and a tongue and two lips? 9 and shown him the two paths? 10 Yet, he has not entered into Aqaba 11 What could let you know what the height is! 12 It is the freeing of a slave 13 Or to feed in times of famine 14 an orphaned relative 15 Or a needy person in misery 16 And to be of those who believe, and urge upon one another to persevere, and urge upon each other to be kind. 17 Those are the Companions of the Right. 18 But those who disbelieve in Our verses, they are the Companions of the Left, 19 with the Fire closed above them. 20