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 an indweller of this city - 2 and I swear by the parent and his offspring: 3 Verily, We have created man in toil. 4 Thinketh he, that none hath power over him? 5 He saith: I have wasted riches plenteous. 6 Does he think that none has observed him? 7 Did We not give him two eyes, 8 And a tongue and two lips, 9 and guided him on the two highways? 10 Yet he attempteth not the steep, 11 And what will make you comprehend what the uphill road is? 12 (It is:) freeing the bondman; 13 Or to feed in times of famine 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 These are the people of the right hand. 18 But they who disbelieved in Our signs - those are the companions of the left. 19 Upon them is a fire, in which they are imprisoned, closed and shut above them. 20