The Town (Al-Balad)
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful
۞ I swear by this city (Makkah); 1 And you are free to live upon it, -- 2 And (the mystic ties of) parent and child;- 3 That We created man in toil and trouble. 4 Does he think that never will anyone overcome him? 5 He saith: I have wasted riches plenteous. 6 Thinketh he that none beholdeth him? 7 Have We not given him two eyes, 8 a tongue, and two lips, 9 and guided him on the two highways? 10 But he would not attempt the uphill road, 11 How will you comprehend what the Steep ascent is? -- 12 The freeing of a slave, 13 Or the giving of food in a day of privation 14 to an orphan near of kin; 15 Or a poor man cleaving to the dust. 16 and, then besides this, he be one of those who believed, and enjoined upon one another steadfastness and enjoined upon one another compassion. 17 Those are the Companions of the Right Hand. 18 And those who disbelieve in Our signs, they are the Companions of the Left Hand; 19 Over them will be fire closed in. 20