Al-Balad

البلد

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90:1

لَآ أُقْسِمُ بِهَـٰذَا ٱلْبَلَدِ

"I swear by this city, [Makkah] -"

90:2

وَأَنتَ حِلٌّۢ بِهَـٰذَا ٱلْبَلَدِ

"And you, [O Muhammad], are free of restriction in this city -"

90:3

وَوَالِدٍۢ وَمَا وَلَدَ

"And [by] the father and that which was born [of him],"

90:4

لَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَـٰنَ فِى كَبَدٍ

"We have certainly created man into hardship."

90:5

أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّن يَقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ أَحَدٌۭ

"Does he think that never will anyone be able to overpower him?"

90:6

يَقُولُ أَهْلَكْتُ مَالًۭا لُّبَدًا

"He says, "I have spent wealth in abundance.""

90:7

أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّمْ يَرَهُۥٓ أَحَدٌ

"Does he think that no one has seen him?"

90:8

أَلَمْ نَجْعَل لَّهُۥ عَيْنَيْنِ

"Have We not made for him two eyes?"

90:9

وَلِسَانًۭا وَشَفَتَيْنِ

"And a tongue and two lips?"

90:10

وَهَدَيْنَـٰهُ ٱلنَّجْدَيْنِ

"And have shown him the two ways?"

90:11

فَلَا ٱقْتَحَمَ ٱلْعَقَبَةَ

"But he has not broken through the difficult pass."

90:12

وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْعَقَبَةُ

"And what can make you know what is the difficult pass?"

90:13

فَكُّ رَقَبَةٍ

"It is the freeing of a slave"

90:14

أَوْ إِطْعَـٰمٌۭ فِى يَوْمٍۢ ذِى مَسْغَبَةٍۢ

"Or feeding on a day of severe hunger"

90:15

يَتِيمًۭا ذَا مَقْرَبَةٍ

"An orphan of near relationship"

90:16

أَوْ مِسْكِينًۭا ذَا مَتْرَبَةٍۢ

"Or a needy person in misery"

90:17

ثُمَّ كَانَ مِنَ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَتَوَاصَوْا۟ بِٱلصَّbْرِ وَتَوَاصَوْا۟ بِٱلْمَرْحَمَةِ

"And then being among those who believed and advised one another to patience and advised one another to compassion."

90:18

أُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ أَصْحَـٰbُ ٱلْمَيْمَنَةِ

"Those are the companions of the right."

90:19

وَٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ بِـَٔايَـٰتِنَا هُمْ أَصْحَـٰbُ ٱلْمَشْـَٔمَةِ

"But they who disbelieved in Our verses - those are the companions of the left."

90:20

عَلَيْهِمْ نَارٌۭ مُّؤْصَدَةٌۢ

"Over them will be fire closed in."