The Town (Al-Balad)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ No! I swear by this land, 1 and thou art a lodger in this land; 2 And by the begetter and that which he begat, 3 Certainly We have created man to be in distress. 4 Does he think that never will anyone overcome him? 5 He saith: I have wasted riches plenteous. 6 Does he then think that no one sees him? 7 Have We not given him two eyes, 8 a tongue, and two lips, 9 And did We not guide him to the two elevated things? 10 But he has not broken through the difficult pass. 11 And what do you know what that difficult steep is? 12 (It is:) freeing the bondman; 13 or the feeding, upon a day of [one's own] hunger, 14 to an orphaned relative 15 or to a needy person in distress; 16 then that he become of those who believe and counsel each other to be steadfast, and counsel each other to be merciful. 17 They are those on the Right Hand (the dwellers of Paradise), 18 and [as for] those who are bent on denying the truth of Our revelations, they are the people of the left hand, 19 On them is fire closed over. 20