سُورَةُ البَلَدِ

I swear by this city, Makkah -

Laaa uqsimu bihaazal balad

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

Wa anta hillum bihaazal balad

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

Wa waalidinw wa maa walad

We have certainly created man into hardship.

Laqad khalaqnal insaana fee kabad

Does he think that never will anyone overcome him?

Ayahsabu al-lai yaqdira 'alaihi ahad

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

Yaqoolu ahlaktu maalal lubadaa

Does he think that no one has seen him?

Ayahsabu al lam yarahooo ahad

Have We not made for him two eyes?

Alam naj'al lahoo 'aynayn

And a tongue and two lips?

Wa lisaananw wa shafatayn

And have shown him the two ways?

Wa hadaynaahun najdayn

But he has not broken through the difficult pass.

Falaq tahamal-'aqabah

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

Wa maaa adraaka mal'aqabah

It is the freeing of a slave

Fakku raqabah

Or feeding on a day of severe hunger

Aw it'aamun fee yawmin zee masghabah

An orphan of near relationship

Yateeman zaa maqrabah

Or a needy person in misery

Aw miskeenan zaa matrabah

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

Summa kaana minal lazeena aamanoo wa tawaasaw bissabri wa tawaasaw bilmarhamah

Those are the companions of the right.

Ulaaa'ika As-haabul maimanah

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

Wallazeena kafaroo bi aayaatinaa hum as-haabul Mash'amah

Over them will be fire closed in.

Alaihim naarum mu'sadah