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Al-Balad
The City
Meccan · 20 verses
بِسۡمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
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بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ لَآ أُقْسِمُ بِهَٰذَا ٱلْبَلَدِ
Translation
I swear by this city, Makkah -
2
وَأَنتَ حِلٌّۢ بِهَٰذَا ٱلْبَلَدِ
Translation
And you, [O Muhammad], are free of restriction in this city -
3
وَوَالِدٍۢ وَمَا وَلَدَ
Translation
And [by] the father and that which was born [of him],
4
لَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ فِى كَبَدٍ
Translation
We have certainly created man into hardship.
5
أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّن يَقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ أَحَدٌۭ
Translation
Does he think that never will anyone overcome him?
6
يَقُولُ أَهْلَكْتُ مَالًۭا لُّبَدًا
Translation
He says, "I have spent wealth in abundance."
7
أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّمْ يَرَهُۥٓ أَحَدٌ
Translation
Does he think that no one has seen him?
8
أَلَمْ نَجْعَل لَّهُۥ عَيْنَيْنِ
Translation
Have We not made for him two eyes?
9
وَلِسَانًۭا وَشَفَتَيْنِ
Translation
And a tongue and two lips?
10
وَهَدَيْنَٰهُ ٱلنَّجْدَيْنِ
Translation
And have shown him the two ways?
11
فَلَا ٱقْتَحَمَ ٱلْعَقَبَةَ
Translation
But he has not broken through the difficult pass.
12
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْعَقَبَةُ
Translation
And what can make you know what is [breaking through] the difficult pass?
13
فَكُّ رَقَبَةٍ
Translation
It is the freeing of a slave
14
أَوْ إِطْعَٰمٌۭ فِى يَوْمٍۢ ذِى مَسْغَبَةٍۢ
Translation
Or feeding on a day of severe hunger
15
يَتِيمًۭا ذَا مَقْرَبَةٍ
Translation
An orphan of near relationship
16
أَوْ مِسْكِينًۭا ذَا مَتْرَبَةٍۢ
Translation
Or a needy person in misery
17
ثُمَّ كَانَ مِنَ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَتَوَاصَوْا۟ بِٱلصَّبْرِ وَتَوَاصَوْا۟ بِٱلْمَرْحَمَةِ
Translation
And then being among those who believed and advised one another to patience and advised one another to compassion.
18
أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ أَصْحَٰبُ ٱلْمَيْمَنَةِ
Translation
Those are the companions of the right.
19
وَٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا هُمْ أَصْحَٰبُ ٱلْمَشْـَٔمَةِ
Translation
But they who disbelieved in Our signs - those are the companions of the left.
20
عَلَيْهِمْ نَارٌۭ مُّؤْصَدَةٌۢ
Translation
Over them will be fire closed in.