Al-Balad

lā uq'simu bihādhā l-baladi

I swear by this city [i.e., Makkah]

wa-anta ḥillun bihādhā l-baladi

And you, [O Muḥammad], are free of restriction in this city

wawālidin wamā walada

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

laqad khalaqnā l-insāna fī kabadin

We have certainly created man into hardship.

ayaḥsabu an lan yaqdira ʿalayhi aḥadun

Does he think that never will anyone overcome him?

yaqūlu ahlaktu mālan lubadan

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

ayaḥsabu an lam yarahu aḥadun

Does he think that no one has seen him?

alam najʿal lahu ʿaynayni

Have We not made for him two eyes?

walisānan washafatayni

And a tongue and two lips?

wahadaynāhu l-najdayni

And have shown him the two ways?

falā iq'taḥama l-ʿaqabata

But he has not broken through the difficult pass.

wamā adrāka mā l-ʿaqabatu

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

fakku raqabatin

It is the freeing of a slave

aw iṭ'ʿāmun fī yawmin dhī masghabatin

Or feeding on a day of severe hunger

yatīman dhā maqrabatin

An orphan of near relationship

aw mis'kīnan dhā matrabatin

Or a needy person in misery

thumma kāna mina alladhīna āmanū watawāṣaw bil-ṣabri watawāṣaw bil-marḥamati

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

ulāika aṣḥābu l-maymanati

Those are the companions of the right.

wa-alladhīna kafarū biāyātinā hum aṣḥābu l-mashamati

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

ʿalayhim nārun mu'ṣadatun

Over them will be fire closed in.