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Surah Al-Balad (The City)

(سورة البَلَدِ)
Surah 90 • Category: Meccan • Verses: 20
1

لَا أُقْسِمُ بِهَٰذَا الْبَلَدِ

English Translation
I swear by this city, Makkah -
2

وَأَنْتَ حِلٌّ بِهَٰذَا الْبَلَدِ

English Translation
And you, [O Muhammad], are free of restriction in this city -
3

وَوَالِدٍ وَمَا وَلَدَ

English Translation
And [by] the father and that which was born [of him],
4

لَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا الْإِنْسَانَ فِي كَبَدٍ

English Translation
We have certainly created man into hardship.
5

أَيَحْسَبُ أَنْ لَنْ يَقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ أَحَدٌ

English Translation
Does he think that never will anyone overcome him?
6

يَقُولُ أَهْلَكْتُ مَالًا لُبَدًا

English Translation
He says, "I have spent wealth in abundance."
7

أَيَحْسَبُ أَنْ لَمْ يَرَهُ أَحَدٌ

English Translation
Does he think that no one has seen him?
8

أَلَمْ نَجْعَلْ لَهُ عَيْنَيْنِ

English Translation
Have We not made for him two eyes?
9

وَلِسَانًا وَشَفَتَيْنِ

English Translation
And a tongue and two lips?
10

وَهَدَيْنَاهُ النَّجْدَيْنِ

English Translation
And have shown him the two ways?
11

فَلَا اقْتَحَمَ الْعَقَبَةَ

English Translation
But he has not broken through the difficult pass.
12

وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا الْعَقَبَةُ

English Translation
And what can make you know what is [breaking through] the difficult pass?
13

فَكُّ رَقَبَةٍ

English Translation
It is the freeing of a slave
14

أَوْ إِطْعَامٌ فِي يَوْمٍ ذِي مَسْغَبَةٍ

English Translation
Or feeding on a day of severe hunger
15

يَتِيمًا ذَا مَقْرَبَةٍ

English Translation
An orphan of near relationship
16

أَوْ مِسْكِينًا ذَا مَتْرَبَةٍ

English Translation
Or a needy person in misery
17

ثُمَّ كَانَ مِنَ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالصَّبْرِ وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالْمَرْحَمَةِ

English Translation
And then being among those who believed and advised one another to patience and advised one another to compassion.
18

أُولَٰئِكَ أَصْحَابُ الْمَيْمَنَةِ

English Translation
Those are the companions of the right.
19

وَالَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا بِآيَاتِنَا هُمْ أَصْحَابُ الْمَشْأَمَةِ

English Translation
But they who disbelieved in Our signs - those are the companions of the left.
20

عَلَيْهِمْ نَارٌ مُؤْصَدَةٌ

English Translation
Over them will be fire closed in.

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