Surah Al-Balad
بِسْمِ اللّٰهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ
لَآ اُقْسِمُ بِهٰذَا الْبَلَدِۙ١
Lā uqsimu bihāżal-balad(i).
[1]
I swear by this city, Makkah -
وَاَنْتَ حِلٌّۢ بِهٰذَا الْبَلَدِۙ٢
Wa anta ḥillum bihāżal-balad(i).
[2]
And you, [O Muhammad], are free of restriction in this city -
وَوَالِدٍ وَّمَا وَلَدَۙ٣
Wa wālidiw wa mā walad(a).
[3]
And [by] the father and that which was born [of him],
لَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا الْاِنْسَانَ فِيْ كَبَدٍۗ٤
Laqad khalaqnal-insāna fī kabad(in).
[4]
We have certainly created man into hardship.
اَيَحْسَبُ اَنْ لَّنْ يَّقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ اَحَدٌ ۘ٥
Ayaḥsabu allay yaqdira ‘alaihi aḥad(un).
[5]
Does he think that never will anyone overcome him?
يَقُوْلُ اَهْلَكْتُ مَالًا لُّبَدًاۗ٦
Yaqūlu ahlaktu mālal lubadā(n).
[6]
He says, "I have spent wealth in abundance."
اَيَحْسَبُ اَنْ لَّمْ يَرَهٗٓ اَحَدٌۗ٧
Ayaḥsabu allam yarahū aḥad(un).
[7]
Does he think that no one has seen him?
اَلَمْ نَجْعَلْ لَّهٗ عَيْنَيْنِۙ٨
Alam naj‘al lahū ‘ainain(i).
[8]
Have We not made for him two eyes?
وَلِسَانًا وَّشَفَتَيْنِۙ٩
Wa lisānaw wa syafatain(i).
[9]
And a tongue and two lips?
وَهَدَيْنٰهُ النَّجْدَيْنِۙ١٠
Wa hadaināhun-najdain(i).
[10]
And have shown him the two ways?
فَلَا اقْتَحَمَ الْعَقَبَةَ ۖ١١
Falaqtaḥamal-‘aqabah(ta).
[11]
But he has not broken through the difficult pass.
وَمَآ اَدْرٰىكَ مَا الْعَقَبَةُ ۗ١٢
Wa mā adrāka mal-‘aqabah(tu).
[12]
And what can make you know what is [breaking through] the difficult pass?
فَكُّ رَقَبَةٍۙ١٣
Fakku raqabah(tin).
[13]
It is the freeing of a slave
اَوْ اِطْعَامٌ فِيْ يَوْمٍ ذِيْ مَسْغَبَةٍۙ١٤
Au iṭ‘āmun fī yaumin żī masgabah(tin).
[14]
Or feeding on a day of severe hunger
يَّتِيْمًا ذَا مَقْرَبَةٍۙ١٥
Yatīman żā maqrabah(tin).
[15]
An orphan of near relationship
اَوْ مِسْكِيْنًا ذَا مَتْرَبَةٍۗ١٦
Au miskīnan żā matrabah(tin).
[16]
Or a needy person in misery
ثُمَّ كَانَ مِنَ الَّذِيْنَ اٰمَنُوْا وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالصَّبْرِ وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالْمَرْحَمَةِۗ١٧
Ṡumma kāna minal-lażīna āmanū wa tawāṣau biṣ-ṣabri wa tawāṣau bil-marḥamah(ti).
[17]
And then being among those who believed and advised one another to patience and advised one another to compassion.
اُولٰۤىِٕكَ اَصْحٰبُ الْمَيْمَنَةِۗ١٨
Ulā'ika aṣḥābul-maimanah(ti).
[18]
Those are the companions of the right.
وَالَّذِيْنَ كَفَرُوْا بِاٰيٰتِنَا هُمْ اَصْحٰبُ الْمَشْـَٔمَةِۗ١٩
Wal-lażīna kafarū bi'āyātinā hum aṣḥābul-masy'amah(ti).
[19]
But they who disbelieved in Our signs - those are the companions of the left.
عَلَيْهِمْ نَارٌ مُّؤْصَدَةٌ ࣖ٢٠
‘Alaihim nārum mu'ṣadah(tun).
[20]
Over them will be fire closed in.