The Town (Al-Balad)
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ I CALL THIS earth to witness -- 1 and thou art a lodger in this land; 2 And [by] the father and that which was born [of him], 3 Verily We have created man into toil and struggle. 4 Thinketh he that none hath power over him? 5 He boasts, "I have spent wealth abundant!" 6 What, does he think none has seen him? 7 Have We not given him two eyes, 8 and a tongue, and a pair of lips, 9 And did We not guide him to the two elevated things? 10 But he did not venture to scale the difficult steep. 11 And what will make you know the path that is steep? 12 The freeing of a slave! 13 or the feeding, upon a day of [one's own] hunger, 14 To an orphan near of kin. 15 Or to the poor man lying in the dust. 16 Then he became of those who believed and enjoined on each other steadfastness and enjoined on each other compassion. 17 Those who do so are the people of the right hand, 18 As for those who rejected Our Signs, they are the People of the Left Hand. 19 and the Fire will close in on them. 20