English - Chapter 90 - Al-Balad

Translation by Dr Laleh Bakhtiar — Permalink

Verse 1 — Surah Al-Balad 90:1

I swear an oath by this land

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Verse 2 — Surah Al-Balad 90:2

thou art allowed in this land

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Verse 3 — Surah Al-Balad 90:3

and by ones who are your parents and what is procreated

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Verse 4 — Surah Al-Balad 90:4

truly, We created the human being in trouble

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Verse 5 — Surah Al-Balad 90:5

Assumes he that none has power over him

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Verse 6 — Surah Al-Balad 90:6

He says: I have caused abundant wealth to perish

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Verse 7 — Surah Al-Balad 90:7

Assumes he that none sees him

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Verse 8 — Surah Al-Balad 90:8

Make we not two eyes for him

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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 guided him to the two open highways

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Verse 11 — Surah Al-Balad 90:11

Yet he rushed not onto the steep ascent

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Verse 12 — Surah Al-Balad 90:12

What will cause thee to recognize what the steep ascent is

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Verse 13 — Surah Al-Balad 90:13

It is the liberating of a bondsperson

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Verse 14 — Surah Al-Balad 90:14

or feeding on a day possessing famine

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Verse 15 — Surah Al-Balad 90:15

an orphan, possessor of kinship

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Verse 16 — Surah Al-Balad 90:16

or a needy, possessor of misery

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Verse 17 — Surah Al-Balad 90:17

Again, it had been among those who believed and counseled one another to having patience and counseled one another to clemency

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Verse 18 — Surah Al-Balad 90:18

Those will be the Companions of the Right

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Verse 19 — Surah Al-Balad 90:19

But they who were ungrateful for Our signs they will be the Companions of the Left

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Verse 20 — Surah Al-Balad 90:20

and over them will be fire, that which is closing in

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