Al-Balad

No! I swear by this land, and you are a resident in it, and by a father and what he begot! We have certainly created the human being in hardship.

لا اقسم بهذا البلد وانت حل بهذا البلد ووالد وما ولد لقد خلقنا الانسن في كبد

Does he think that no one will ever have power over him? He says, "I have annihilated goods in heaps!"

ايحسب ان لن يقدر عليه احد يقول اهلكت مالا لبدا

Does he think that no one has seen him?

ايحسب ان لم يره احد

Have We not assigned him two eyes, a tongue, and two lips, and guided him along the two paths?

الم نجعل له عينين ولسانا وشفتين وهدينه النجدين

But he has not plunged past what makes one balk.

فلا اقتحم العقبه

And what will give you an idea of what makes one balk?

وما ادريك ما العقبه

It is freeing a person from the burden of a debt, or feeding, on a day of famine, an orphan near of kin, or a destitute person in privation.

فك رقبه او اطعم في يوم ذي مسغبه يتيما ذا مقربه او مسكينا ذا متربه

Then, it is being of those who have believed and enjoined one another to patience, and enjoined one another to benevolence.

ثم كان من الذين امنوا وتواصوا بالصبر وتواصوا بالمرحمه

Those are the companions of the right side.

اوليك اصحب الميمنه

But those who disowned Our signs, they are the companions of the left side.

والذين كفروا بايتنا هم اصحب المشمه

Over them, a fire locked shut.

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