The Town (Al-Balad)
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
۞ NAY! I call to witness this land 1 and you are dwelling in this city -- 2 And the begetter and whom he begot. 3 We have certainly created man into hardship. 4 What, does he think none has power over him, 5 He shall say: I have wasted much wealth. 6 Does he, then, think that no one sees him? 7 Have We not given him two eyes, 8 And a tongue and two lips? 9 And guide him to the parting of the mountain ways? 10 So he did not quickly enter the steep valley. 11 and what shall teach thee what is the steep? 12 It is the freeing of a slave; 13 Or to feed in times of famine 14 to an orphan near of kin 15 or of a needy [stranger] lying in the dust 16 And then being among those who believed and advised one another to patience and advised one another to compassion. 17 These are the people of the right hand. 18 As for those who disbelieve in Our revelations, they are the people of the left 19 with the Fire closed above them. 20