The Town (Al-Balad)
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ Nay, I swear by this city - 1 and thou art a lodger in this land; 2 And (the mystic ties of) parent and child;- 3 indeed, We created man in trouble. 4 Does he, then, think that no one has power over him? 5 saying, 'I have consumed wealth abundant'? 6 Does man think that no one saw him? 7 Have We not given him two eyes, 8 And a tongue and a pair of lips? 9 And pointed out to him the two conspicuous ways? 10 Yet he has not assaulted the steep; 11 Would that you knew what Aqaba is! 12 (It is) the freeing of a slave, 13 Or to feed in times of famine 14 An orphan of near relationship 15 Or to the poor man lying in the dust. 16 then that he become of those who believe and counsel each other to be steadfast, and counsel each other to be merciful. 17 These are the people of the right. 18 As for those who rejected Our Signs, they are the People of the Left Hand. 19 Upon them is a fire, in which they are imprisoned, closed and shut above them. 20