English - Chapter 90 - Al-Balad

Translation by Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali — Permalink

Verse 1 — Surah Al-Balad 90:1

No! I swear by this country, - (Or: city)

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Verse 2 — Surah Al-Balad 90:2

And you (i.e., the Prophet) are an inhabitant of this country

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Verse 3 — Surah Al-Balad 90:3

And (I swear) (by) the begetter and what he begot

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Verse 4 — Surah Al-Balad 90:4

Indeed We already created man in suffering

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Verse 5 — Surah Al-Balad 90:5

Does he reckon that no one can ever determine over him

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Verse 6 — Surah Al-Balad 90:6

He says, "I have consumed stacked wealth

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Verse 7 — Surah Al-Balad 90:7

Does he reckon that none has seen him

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Verse 8 — Surah Al-Balad 90:8

Have We not made for him two 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 guided him on the two highways (of good and evil)

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Verse 11 — Surah Al-Balad 90:11

Yet he has not rushed along the uneven (Or: steep) track

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Verse 12 — Surah Al-Balad 90:12

And what makes you realize what the uneven track is

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Verse 13 — Surah Al-Balad 90:13

It is the freeing of a slave, (Literally: the untying of a neck)

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Verse 14 — Surah Al-Balad 90:14

Or feeding upon a day of famine

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Verse 15 — Surah Al-Balad 90:15

An orphan of (Literally: owning) near relationship

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Verse 16 — Surah Al-Balad 90:16

Or an indigent man in starvation; (Literally: in dusty circumstances)

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Verse 17 — Surah Al-Balad 90:17

Thereafter he is one of the ones who believed, and enjoined one another to have patience, and enjoined one another to do merciful deeds

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Verse 18 — Surah Al-Balad 90:18

Those are the companions of the position of Rightness

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Verse 19 — Surah Al-Balad 90:19

And the ones who disbelieve in Our signs, they are the companions of the position of sinister (befalling); (Or: the Hand)

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Verse 20 — Surah Al-Balad 90:20

Over them is a Fire without any outlet (Literally: vaulted/over)

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