Al Balad

Yusuf Ali

1 I do call to witness this City; -

Saheeh International

1 I swear by this city, Makkah -

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Yusuf Ali

2 And thou art a freeman of this City; -

Saheeh International

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Yusuf Ali

3 And (the mystic ties of) parent and child; -

Saheeh International

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Yusuf Ali

4 Verily We have created man into toil and struggle.

Saheeh International

4 We have certainly created man into hardship.

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

4 Verily, We have created man in toil.

Yusuf Ali

5 Thinketh he, that none hath power over him?

Saheeh International

5 Does he think that never will anyone overcome him?

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

5 Does he think that none can overcome him?

Yusuf Ali

6 He may say (boastfully); Wealth have I squandered in abundance!

Saheeh International

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Yusuf Ali

7 Thinketh he that none beholdeth him?

Saheeh International

7 Does he think that no one has seen him?

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

7 Does he think that none sees him?

Yusuf Ali

8 Have We not made for him a pair of eyes? -

Saheeh International

8 Have We not made for him two eyes?

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

8 Have We not made for him two eyes,

Yusuf Ali

9 And a tongue, and a pair of lips? -

Saheeh International

9 And a tongue and two lips?

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

9 And a tongue and two lips?

Yusuf Ali

10 And shown him the two highways?

Saheeh International

10 And have shown him the two ways?

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Yusuf Ali

11 But he hath made no haste on the path that is steep.

Saheeh International

11 But he has not broken through the difficult pass.

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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).

Yusuf Ali

12 And what will explain to thee the path that is steep? -

Saheeh International

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Yusuf Ali

13 (It is:) freeing the bondman;

Saheeh International

13 It is the freeing of a slave

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

13 (It is) freeing a neck (slave)

Yusuf Ali

14 Or the giving of food in a day of privation

Saheeh International

14 Or feeding on a day of severe hunger

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Yusuf Ali

15 To the orphan with claims of relationship,

Saheeh International

15 An orphan of near relationship

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

15 To an orphan near of kin.

Yusuf Ali

16 Or to the indigent (down) in the dust.

Saheeh International

16 Or a needy person in misery

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Yusuf Ali

17 Then will he be of those who believe, and enjoin patience, (constancy, and self - restraint), and enjoin deeds of kindness and compassion.

Saheeh International

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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.

Yusuf Ali

18 Such are the Companions of the Right Hand.

Saheeh International

18 Those are the companions of the right.

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Yusuf Ali

19 But those who reject Our Signs, they are the (unhappy) Companions of the Left Hand.

Saheeh International

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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).

Yusuf Ali

20 On them will be Fire vaulted over (all round).

Saheeh International

20 Over them will be fire closed in.

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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