English - Chapter 90 - Al-Balad

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Verse 1 — Surah Al-Balad 90:1

I swear by this (sacred) city (Makkah)

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Verse 2 — Surah Al-Balad 90:2

– And you (O Messenger) are a dweller in this city. –

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Verse 3 — Surah Al-Balad 90:3

And by him (Abraham) who begets, and him (Muhammad) whom he begot

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Verse 4 — Surah Al-Balad 90:4

We have assuredly created human in (a life of) trial and hardship

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Verse 5 — Surah Al-Balad 90:5

Does human think that no one has power over him

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Verse 6 — Surah Al-Balad 90:6

He says: "I have consumed abundant wealth

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Verse 7 — Surah Al-Balad 90:7

Does he, then, think that no one ever sees him

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Verse 8 — Surah Al-Balad 90:8

Have We not made for him a pair of eyes

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Verse 9 — Surah Al-Balad 90:9

And a tongue and two lips

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Verse 10 — Surah Al-Balad 90:10

And shown him the two ways (one to follow and one to avoid)

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Verse 11 — Surah Al-Balad 90:11

Yet he makes no effort to make the ascent

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Verse 12 — Surah Al-Balad 90:12

What enables you to perceive what the ascent is

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Verse 13 — Surah Al-Balad 90:13

It is the freeing of a bondsman (a slave or a captive)

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Verse 14 — Surah Al-Balad 90:14

Or feeding, on a day of privation

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Verse 15 — Surah Al-Balad 90:15

An orphan near of kin

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Verse 16 — Surah Al-Balad 90:16

Or a poor wretch in misery

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Verse 17 — Surah Al-Balad 90:17

And being, besides, of those who believe and exhort one another to patience and exhort one another to pity and compassion

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Verse 18 — Surah Al-Balad 90:18

Those are they who are the people of happiness and prosperity (who will be given their Records in their right hands on Judgment Day)

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Verse 19 — Surah Al-Balad 90:19

But those who disbelieve in Our Revelations – they are the people of wretchedness (who will be given their Records in their left hands)

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Verse 20 — Surah Al-Balad 90:20

On them is Fire closed over

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