Surah Al-Balad البلد

لَآ أُقۡسِمُ بِهَٰذَا ٱلۡبَلَدِ ١

Lā uqsimu bihādhal-balad

I swear by this city [i.e., Makkah] –

وَأَنتَ حِلُّۢ بِهَٰذَا ٱلۡبَلَدِ ٢

Wa anta hillu bihādhal-balad

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

وَوَالِدٖ وَمَا وَلَدَ ٣

Wawālidin wamā walad

And [by] the father¹⁹²⁴ and that which was born [of him],

لَقَدۡ خَلَقۡنَا ٱلۡإِنسَٰنَ فِي كَبَدٍ ٤

Laqad khalaqnal-insāna fī kabad

We have certainly created man into hardship.

أَيَحۡسَبُ أَن لَّن يَقۡدِرَ عَلَيۡهِ أَحَدٞ ٥

Ayahsabu al lan yaqdira 'alayhi ahad

Does he think that never will anyone overcome him?

يَقُولُ أَهۡلَكۡتُ مَالٗا لُّبَدًا ٦

Yaqūlu ahlaktu mālal lubadā

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

أَيَحۡسَبُ أَن لَّمۡ يَرَهُۥٓ أَحَدٌ ٧

Ayahsabu al lam yarahū ahad

Does he think that no one has seen him?

أَلَمۡ نَجۡعَل لَّهُۥ عَيۡنَيۡنِ ٨

Alam naj'al lahū 'aynayn

Have We not made for him two eyes?

وَلِسَانٗا وَشَفَتَيۡنِ ٩

Walisānan washafatayn

And a tongue and two lips?

وَهَدَيۡنَٰهُ ٱلنَّجۡدَيۡنِ ١٠

Wahadaynāhun-najdayn

And have shown him the two ways?¹⁹²⁵

فَلَا ٱقۡتَحَمَ ٱلۡعَقَبَةَ ١١

Falaqtahamal-'aqabah

But he has not broken through the difficult pass.¹⁹²⁶

وَمَآ أَدۡرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلۡعَقَبَةُ ١٢

Wamā adrāka mal-'aqabah

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

فَكُّ رَقَبَةٍ ١٣

Fakku raqabah

It is the freeing of a slave

أَوۡ إِطۡعَٰمٞ فِي يَوۡمٖ ذِي مَسۡغَبَةٖ ١٤

Aw it'āmun fī yawmin dhī masghabah

Or feeding on a day of severe hunger

يَتِيمٗا ذَا مَقۡرَبَةٍ ١٥

Yatīman dhā maqrabah

An orphan of near relationship

أَوۡ مِسۡكِينٗا ذَا مَتۡرَبَةٖ ١٦

Aw miskīnan dhā matrabah

Or a needy person in misery

ثُمَّ كَانَ مِنَ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ وَتَوَاصَوۡاْ بِٱلصَّبۡرِ وَتَوَاصَوۡاْ بِٱلۡمَرۡحَمَةِ ١٧

Thumma kāna minal-ladhīna āmanū watawāsaw bis-sabri watawāsaw bil-marhamah

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

أُوْلَٰٓئِكَ أَصۡحَٰبُ ٱلۡمَيۡمَنَةِ ١٨

Ulā'ika ashābul-maymanah

Those are the companions of the right.¹⁹²⁷

وَٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا هُمۡ أَصۡحَٰبُ ٱلۡمَشۡـَٔمَةِ ١٩

Walladhīna kafarū bi'āyātinā hum ashābul-mash'amah

But they who disbelieved in Our signs - those are the companions of the left.¹⁹²⁸

عَلَيۡهِمۡ نَارٞ مُّؤۡصَدَةُۢ ٢٠

'Alayhim nārum mu'sadah

Over them will be fire closed in.¹⁹²⁹