আল বালাদ (নগরী)

1 I swear by this city, Makkah -

1 In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. I swear by this city (Makkah);

1 In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. Nay, I swear by this city -

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

2 And you are free (from sin, and to punish the enemies of Islam on the Day of the conquest) in this city (Makkah).

2 And thou art an indweller of this city -

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

3 And by the begetter (i.e. Adam عليه السلام) and that which he begot (i.e. his progeny).

3 And the begetter and that which he begat,

4 We have certainly created man into hardship.

4 Verily, We have created man in toil.

4 We verily have created man in an atmosphere:

5 Does he think that never will anyone overcome him?

5 Does he think that none can overcome him?

5 Thinketh he that none hath power over him ?

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

6 He says (boastfully): "I have wasted wealth in abundance!"

6 And he saith: I have destroyed vast wealth:

7 Does he think that no one has seen him?

7 Does he think that none sees him?

7 Thinketh he that none beholdeth him ?

8 Have We not made for him two eyes?

8 Have We not made for him two eyes,

8 Did We not assign unto him two eyes

9 And a tongue and two lips?

9 And a tongue and two lips?

9 And a tongue and two lips,

10 And have shown him the two ways?

10 And shown him the two ways (good and evil)?

10 And guide him to the parting of the mountain ways ?

11 But he has not broken through the difficult pass.

11 But he has not attempted to pass on the path that is steep (i.e. the path which will lead to goodness and success).

11 But he hath not attempted the Ascent -

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

12 And what will make you know the path that is steep?

12 Ah, what will convey unto thee what the Ascent is! -

13 It is the freeing of a slave

13 (It is) freeing a neck (slave)

13 (It is) to free a slave,

14 Or feeding on a day of severe hunger

14 Or giving food in a day of hunger (famine),

14 And to feed in the day of hunger.

15 An orphan of near relationship

15 To an orphan near of kin.

15 An orphan near of kin,

16 Or a needy person in misery

16 Or to a Miskin (poor) cleaving to dust (out of misery).

16 Or some poor wretch in misery,

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

17 Then he became one of those who believed (in the Islamic Monotheism) and recommended one another to perseverance and patience, and (also) recommended one another to pity and compassion.

17 And to be of those who believe and exhort one another to perseverance and exhort one another to pity.

18 Those are the companions of the right.

18 They are those on the Right Hand (i.e. the dwellers of Paradise),

18 Their place will be on the right hand.

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

19 But those who disbelieved in Our Ayat (proofs, evidence, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.), they are those on the Left Hand (the dwellers of Hell).

19 But those who disbelieve Our revelations, their place will be on the left hand.

20 Over them will be fire closed in.

20 The Fire will be shut over them (i.e. they will be enveloped by the Fire without any opening or window or outlet.

20 Fire will be an awning over them.