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البلد
Surah Al-Balad
Abdullah Basfer
Hafs from Asim · Murattal
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Al-Balad

The City · 20 verses · Abdullah Basfer, Hafs from Asim
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بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
90:1
لَآ أُقْسِمُ بِهَٰذَا ٱلْبَلَدِ۝١
I swear by this city [i.e., Makkah] –
90:2
وَأَنتَ حِلٌّۢ بِهَٰذَا ٱلْبَلَدِ۝٢
And you, [O Muḥammad], are free of restriction in this city –
90:3
وَوَالِدٍ وَمَا وَلَدَ۝٣
And [by] the father and that which was born [of him],
90:4
لَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ فِى كَبَدٍ۝٤
We have certainly created man into hardship.
90:5
أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّن يَقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ أَحَدٌ۝٥
Does he think that never will anyone overcome him?
90:6
يَقُولُ أَهْلَكْتُ مَالًا لُّبَدًا۝٦
He says, "I have spent wealth in abundance."
90:7
أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّمْ يَرَهُۥٓ أَحَدٌ۝٧
Does he think that no one has seen him?
90:8
أَلَمْ نَجْعَل لَّهُۥ عَيْنَيْنِ۝٨
Have We not made for him two eyes?
90:9
وَلِسَانًا وَشَفَتَيْنِ۝٩
And a tongue and two lips?
90:10
وَهَدَيْنَٰهُ ٱلنَّجْدَيْنِ۝١٠
And have shown him the two ways?
90:11
فَلَا ٱقْتَحَمَ ٱلْعَقَبَةَ۝١١
But he has not broken through the difficult pass.
90:12
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْعَقَبَةُ۝١٢
And what can make you know what is [breaking through] the difficult pass?
90:13
فَكُّ رَقَبَةٍ۝١٣
It is the freeing of a slave
90:14
أَوْ إِطْعَٰمٌ فِى يَوْمٍ ذِى مَسْغَبَةٍ۝١٤
Or feeding on a day of severe hunger
90:15
يَتِيمًا ذَا مَقْرَبَةٍ۝١٥
An orphan of near relationship
90:16
أَوْ مِسْكِينًا ذَا مَتْرَبَةٍ۝١٦
Or a needy person in misery
90:17
ثُمَّ كَانَ مِنَ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَتَوَاصَوْا۟ بِٱلصَّبْرِ وَتَوَاصَوْا۟ بِٱلْمَرْحَمَةِ۝١٧
And then being among those who believed and advised one another to patience and advised one another to compassion.
90:18
أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ أَصْحَٰبُ ٱلْمَيْمَنَةِ۝١٨
Those are the companions of the right.
90:19
وَٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا هُمْ أَصْحَٰبُ ٱلْمَشْـَٔمَةِ۝١٩
But they who disbelieved in Our signs - those are the companions of the left.
90:20
عَلَيْهِمْ نَارٌ مُّؤْصَدَةٌۢ۝٢٠
Over them will be fire closed in.
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