Al-Balad البلد
What makes one balk فلا اقتحم العقبة
Summary and links in the frieze
In the frieze He learns the hard path: freeing from debt, feeding the orphan and the destitute, then believing and enjoining patience.
Read just before, 91 leads here: The Self is inspired with its depravity and its guardedness; in the next sura, the human being is guided along the two paths. 91
It leads to 89: Feeding the orphan and the destitute is plunging past; the next sura reproaches: you do not honor the orphan, nor urge feeding the destitute. 89
Closes on “They ask one another”
Kwa jina la Mungu, Mwingi wa Huruma, Mwenye Huruma. La! Naapa kwa nchi hii, nawe, wewe uko humo mkazi, na kwa mzazi na yale aliyozaa! Hakika tumemuumba mwanadamu katika taabu.
ٮسم الله الرحمں الرحٮم لا اڡسم ٮهدا الٮلد واٮٮ حل ٮهدا الٮلد ووالد وما ولد لڡد حلڡٮا الاٮسں ڡى كٮد
Je, anadhani kwamba hakuna atakayeweza kamwe lolote dhidi yake? Husema: “Nimeangamiza mali kwa marundo!”
اٮحسٮ اں لں ٮڡدر علٮه احد ٮڡول اهلكٮ مالا لٮدا
Je, anadhani kwamba hakuna aliyemwona?
اٮحسٮ اں لم ٮره احد
Je, hatukumwekea macho mawili, ulimi na midomo miwili, na hatukumwongoza kwenye njia mbili?
الم ٮحعل له عٮٮٮں ولساٮا وسڡٮٮں وهدٮٮه الٮحدٮں
Lakini hakujirusha kupita kile kinachorudisha nyuma.
ڡلا اڡٮحم العڡٮه
Na nani atakupa wazo la kile kinachorudisha nyuma?
وما ادرٮك ما العڡٮه
Ni kuwa amemkomboa mtu aliye rehani, au kuwa amelisha, siku ya njaa, yatima miongoni mwa jamaa, au mhitaji aliyeambatana na udongo.
ڡك رڡٮه او اطعم ڡى ٮوم دى مسعٮه ٮٮٮما دا مڡرٮه او مسكٮٮا دا مٮرٮه
Kisha, ni kuwa miongoni mwa wale walioamini na wakaagizana subira, na wakaagizana huruma.
ٮم كاں مں الدٮں امٮوا وٮواصوا ٮالصٮر وٮواصوا ٮالمرحمه
Hao ndio marafiki wa upande wa kulia.
اولٮك اصحٮ المٮمٮه
Na wale waliokana ishara Zetu, hao ndio marafiki wa upande wa kushoto.
والدٮں كڡروا ٮاٮٮٮا هم اصحٮ المسمه
Juu yao, moto uliofungwa kwa kufuli.
علٮهم ٮار موصده