Chapter 90, Al-Balad [ The City ]
- Seeking refuge with Allah from the banished Satan.I begin in the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful.
- 1. I do call to witness this City;-
- 2. And thou art a freeman of this City;-
- 3. And (the mystic ties of) parent and child;-
- 4. Verily We have created man into toil and struggle.
- 5. Thinketh he, that none hath power over him?
- 6. He may say (boastfully); Wealth have I squandered in abundance!
- 7. Thinketh he that none beholdeth him?
- 8. Have We not made for him a pair of eyes?-
- 9. And a tongue, and a pair of lips?-
- 10. And shown him the two highways?
- 11. But he hath made no haste on the path that is steep.
- 12. And what will explain to thee the path that is steep?-
- 13. (It is:) freeing the bondman;
- 14. Or the giving of food in a day of privation
- 15. To the orphan with claims of relationship,
- 16. Or to the indigent (down) in the dust.
- 17. Then will he be of those who believe, and enjoin patience, (constancy, and self-restraint), and enjoin deeds of kindness and compassion.
- 18. Such are the Companions of the Right Hand.
- 19. But those who reject Our Signs, they are the (unhappy) Companions of the Left Hand.
- 20. On them will be Fire vaulted over (all round).
