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90. Al-Balad
In the Name of Allâh, the Most Beneficent, the Most
Merciful. |
| 1. |
 I swear by
this city (Makkah); |
| 2. |
 And you are
free (from sin, to punish the enemies of Islâm on the Day of the conquest)
in this city (Makkah)[] , |
| 3. |
 And by the
begetter (i.e. Adam >>) and that which he begot (i.e.
his progeny); |
| 4. |
 Verily, We
have created man in toil. |
| 5. |
 Thinks he
that none can overcome him? |
| 6. |
 He says
(boastfully): "I have wasted wealth in abundance!" |
| 7. |
 Thinks he
that none sees 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 ways (good and evil)? |
| 11. |
 But he has
made no effort to pass on the path that is steep. |
| 12. |
 And what
will make you know the path that is steep? |
| 13. |
 (It is)
Freeing a neck (slave, etc.)[] |
| 14. |
 Or giving
food in a day of hunger (famine), |
| 15. |
 To an
orphan near of kin. |
| 16. |
 Or to a
Miskîn (poor) afflicted with misery. |
| 17. |
 Then he
became one of those who believed, and recommended one another to
perseverance and patience, and (also) recommended one another to pity and
compassion. |
| 18. |
 They are
those on the Right Hand (the dwellers of Paradise), |
| 19. |
 But those
who disbelieved in Our Ayât (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons,
signs, revelations, etc.), they are those on the Left Hand (the dwellers
of Hell). |
| 20. |
 The Fire
will be shut over them (i.e. they will be enveloped by the Fire without
any opening or window or outlet.[] |