The Town (Al-Balad)
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
۞ No! I swear by this land, 1 – this city wherein you have been rendered violable– 2 and by parent and offspring, 3 Verily We have created man into toil and struggle. 4 Does he think that no one has power over him? 5 He says (boastfully): "I have wasted wealth in abundance!" 6 Does he think that no one has seen him? 7 Have We not made for him two eyes 8 a tongue, and two lips? 9 And did We not show him the two highroads (of good and evil)? 10 Yet he has not scaled the height. 11 and what shall teach thee what is the steep? 12 (It is) to free a slave, 13 or the feeding, upon a day of [one's own] hunger, 14 an orphaned relative 15 Or some poor wretch in misery, 16 And moreover to be of those who accepted faith, and who urged patience to one another and who urged graciousness to one another. 17 Their place will be on 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