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English - Chapter 90 - Al-Balad

Translation by Umm Muhammad — Permalink

Verse 1 — Surah Al-Balad 90:1

I swear by this city, Makkah

Verse 2 — Surah Al-Balad 90:2

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

Verse 3 — Surah Al-Balad 90:3

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

Verse 4 — Surah Al-Balad 90:4

We have certainly created man into hardship

Verse 5 — Surah Al-Balad 90:5

Does he think that never will anyone overcome him

Verse 6 — Surah Al-Balad 90:6

He says, "I have spent wealth in abundance

Verse 7 — Surah Al-Balad 90:7

Does he think that no one has seen him

Verse 8 — Surah Al-Balad 90:8

Have We not made for him two eyes

Verse 9 — Surah Al-Balad 90:9

And a tongue and two lips

Verse 10 — Surah Al-Balad 90:10

And have shown him the two ways

Verse 11 — Surah Al-Balad 90:11

But he has not broken through the difficult pass

Verse 12 — Surah Al-Balad 90:12

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

Verse 13 — Surah Al-Balad 90:13

It is the freeing of a slave

Verse 14 — Surah Al-Balad 90:14

Or feeding on a day of severe hunger

Verse 15 — Surah Al-Balad 90:15

An orphan of near relationship

Verse 16 — Surah Al-Balad 90:16

Or a needy person in misery

Verse 17 — Surah Al-Balad 90:17

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

Verse 18 — Surah Al-Balad 90:18

Those are the companions of the right

Verse 19 — Surah Al-Balad 90:19

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

Verse 20 — Surah Al-Balad 90:20

Over them will be fire closed in