English - Chapter 90 - Al-Balad

Translation by John Medows Rodwell — Permalink

Verse 1 — Surah Al-Balad 90:1

I NEED not to swear by this SOIL

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Verse 2 — Surah Al-Balad 90:2

This soil on which thou dost dwell

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Verse 3 — Surah Al-Balad 90:3

Or by sire and offspring

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Verse 4 — Surah Al-Balad 90:4

Surely in trouble have we created man

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Verse 5 — Surah Al-Balad 90:5

What! thinketh he that no one hath power over him

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Verse 6 — Surah Al-Balad 90:6

I have wasted," saith he, "enormous riches

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Verse 7 — Surah Al-Balad 90:7

What! thinketh he that no one regardeth him

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Verse 8 — Surah Al-Balad 90:8

What! have we not made him eyes

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Verse 9 — Surah Al-Balad 90:9

And tongue, and lips

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Verse 10 — Surah Al-Balad 90:10

And guided him to the two highways

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Verse 11 — Surah Al-Balad 90:11

Yet he attempted not the steep

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Verse 12 — Surah Al-Balad 90:12

And who shall teach thee what the steep is

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Verse 13 — Surah Al-Balad 90:13

It is to ransom the captive

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Verse 14 — Surah Al-Balad 90:14

Or to feed in the day of famine

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Verse 15 — Surah Al-Balad 90:15

The orphan who is near of kin

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Verse 16 — Surah Al-Balad 90:16

or the poor that lieth in the dust

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Verse 17 — Surah Al-Balad 90:17

Beside this, to be of those who believe, and enjoin stedfastness on each other, and enjoin compassion on each other

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Verse 18 — Surah Al-Balad 90:18

These shall be the people of the right hand

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Verse 19 — Surah Al-Balad 90:19

While they who disbelieve our signs, Shall be the people of the left

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Verse 20 — Surah Al-Balad 90:20

Around them the fire shall close

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