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Meccan surah · Juz 30 · 20 verses

090

Al-Balad

The City

  1. 90:1

    لَآ أُقْسِمُ بِهَـٰذَا ٱلْبَلَدِ ١

    lā uq'simu bihādhā l-baladi

    I swear by this city [i.e., Makkah]

  2. 90:2

    وَأَنتَ حِلٌّۢ بِهَـٰذَا ٱلْبَلَدِ ٢

    wa-anta ḥillun bihādhā l-baladi

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

  3. 90:3

    وَوَالِدٍ وَمَا وَلَدَ ٣

    wawālidin wamā walada

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

  4. 90:4

    لَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَـٰنَ فِى كَبَدٍ ٤

    laqad khalaqnā l-insāna fī kabadin

    We have certainly created man into hardship.

  5. 90:5

    أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّن يَقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ أَحَدٌ ٥

    ayaḥsabu an lan yaqdira ʿalayhi aḥadun

    Does he think that never will anyone overcome him?

  6. 90:6

    يَقُولُ أَهْلَكْتُ مَالًا لُّبَدًا ٦

    yaqūlu ahlaktu mālan lubadan

    He says, "I have spent wealth in abundance."

  7. 90:7

    أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّمْ يَرَهُۥٓ أَحَدٌ ٧

    ayaḥsabu an lam yarahu aḥadun

    Does he think that no one has seen him?

  8. 90:8

    أَلَمْ نَجْعَل لَّهُۥ عَيْنَيْنِ ٨

    alam najʿal lahu ʿaynayni

    Have We not made for him two eyes?

  9. 90:9

    وَلِسَانًا وَشَفَتَيْنِ ٩

    walisānan washafatayni

    And a tongue and two lips?

  10. 90:10

    وَهَدَيْنَـٰهُ ٱلنَّجْدَيْنِ ١٠

    wahadaynāhu l-najdayni

    And have shown him the two ways?

  11. 90:11

    فَلَا ٱقْتَحَمَ ٱلْعَقَبَةَ ١١

    falā iq'taḥama l-ʿaqabata

    But he has not broken through the difficult pass.

  12. 90:12

    وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْعَقَبَةُ ١٢

    wamā adrāka mā l-ʿaqabatu

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

  13. 90:13

    فَكُّ رَقَبَةٍ ١٣

    fakku raqabatin

    It is the freeing of a slave

  14. 90:14

    أَوْ إِطْعَـٰمٌ فِى يَوْمٍ ذِى مَسْغَبَةٍ ١٤

    aw iṭ'ʿāmun fī yawmin dhī masghabatin

    Or feeding on a day of severe hunger

  15. 90:15

    يَتِيمًا ذَا مَقْرَبَةٍ ١٥

    yatīman dhā maqrabatin

    An orphan of near relationship

  16. 90:16

    أَوْ مِسْكِينًا ذَا مَتْرَبَةٍ ١٦

    aw mis'kīnan dhā matrabatin

    Or a needy person in misery

  17. 90:17

    ثُمَّ كَانَ مِنَ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَتَوَاصَوْا۟ بِٱلصَّبْرِ وَتَوَاصَوْا۟ بِٱلْمَرْحَمَةِ ١٧

    thumma kāna mina alladhīna āmanū watawāṣaw bil-ṣabri watawāṣaw bil-marḥamati

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

  18. 90:18

    أُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ أَصْحَـٰبُ ٱلْمَيْمَنَةِ ١٨

    ulāika aṣḥābu l-maymanati

    Those are the companions of the right.

  19. 90:19

    وَٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ بِـَٔايَـٰتِنَا هُمْ أَصْحَـٰبُ ٱلْمَشْـَٔمَةِ ١٩

    wa-alladhīna kafarū biāyātinā hum aṣḥābu l-mashamati

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

  20. 90:20

    عَلَيْهِمْ نَارٌ مُّؤْصَدَةٌۢ ٢٠

    ʿalayhim nārun mu'ṣadatun

    Over them will be fire closed in.