90. Al-Balad (The City)
البلد
21 ayahs
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بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful.
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لَآ أُقْسِمُ بِهَـٰذَا ٱلْبَلَدِ
I swear by this city, Makkah -
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وَأَنتَ حِلٌّۢ بِهَـٰذَا ٱلْبَلَدِ
And you, [O Muhammad], are free of restriction in this city -
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وَوَالِدٍ وَمَا وَلَدَ
And [by] the father and that which was born [of him],
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لَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَـٰنَ فِى كَبَدٍ
We have certainly created man into hardship.
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أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّن يَقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ أَحَدٌ
Does he think that never will anyone overcome him?
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يَقُولُ أَهْلَكْتُ مَالًا لُّبَدًا
He says, "I have spent wealth in abundance."
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أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّمْ يَرَهُۥٓ أَحَدٌ
Does he think that no one has seen him?
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أَلَمْ نَجْعَل لَّهُۥ عَيْنَيْنِ
Have We not made for him two eyes?
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وَلِسَانًا وَشَفَتَيْنِ
And a tongue and two lips?
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وَهَدَيْنَـٰهُ ٱلنَّجْدَيْنِ
And have shown him the two ways?
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فَلَا ٱقْتَحَمَ ٱلْعَقَبَةَ
But he has not broken through the difficult pass.
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وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْعَقَبَةُ
And what can make you know what is [breaking through] the difficult pass?
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فَكُّ رَقَبَةٍ
It is the freeing of a slave
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أَوْ إِطْعَـٰمٌ فِى يَوْمٍ ذِى مَسْغَبَةٍ
Or feeding on a day of severe hunger
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يَتِيمًا ذَا مَقْرَبَةٍ
An orphan of near relationship
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أَوْ مِسْكِينًا ذَا مَتْرَبَةٍ
Or a needy person in misery
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ثُمَّ كَانَ مِنَ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَتَوَاصَوْا۟ بِٱلصَّبْرِ وَتَوَاصَوْا۟ بِٱلْمَرْحَمَةِ
And then being among those who believed and advised one another to patience and advised one another to compassion.
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أُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ أَصْحَـٰبُ ٱلْمَيْمَنَةِ
Those are the companions of the right.
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وَٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ بِـَٔايَـٰتِنَا هُمْ أَصْحَـٰبُ ٱلْمَشْـَٔمَةِ
But they who disbelieved in Our signs - those are the companions of the left.
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عَلَيْهِمْ نَارٌ مُّؤْصَدَةٌۢ
Over them will be fire closed in.
Quran text: Tanzil Project (tanzil.net), Uthmani. Translations: AbdolMohammad Ayati (Tanzil); Saheeh International (Tanzil); A. S. F. Bubenheim & N. Elyas (Tanzil); Muhammad Hamidullah (Tanzil); Julio Cortés (Tanzil).