Al-Balad

No! I swear by this land, and you are a resident in it, and by a begetter 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 العقبة

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

وما ادرىك ما العقبة

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

فك رقبة او اطعم في يوم ذي مسغبة يتيما ذا مقربة او مسكينا ذا متربة

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

ثم كان من الذين ءامنوا وتواصوا بالصبر وتواصوا بالمرحمة

Those are the companions of the right side.

اوليك اصحب الميمنة

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

والذين كفروا بايتنا هم اصحب المشمة

Over them, a fire locked shut.

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