البلد
The City • 20 ayahs • Meccan
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
1I swear by this city [i.e., Makkah] –
2And you, [O Muḥammad], are free of restriction in this city –
3And [by] the father[1924] and that which was born [of him],
4We have certainly created man into hardship.
5Does he think that never will anyone overcome him?
6He says, "I have spent wealth in abundance."
7Does he think that no one has seen him?
8Have We not made for him two eyes?
9And a tongue and two lips?
10And have shown him the two ways?[1925]
11But he has not broken through the difficult pass.[1926]
12And what can make you know what is [breaking through] the difficult pass?
13It is the freeing of a slave
14Or feeding on a day of severe hunger
15An orphan of near relationship
16Or a needy person in misery
17And then being among those who believed and advised one another to patience and advised one another to compassion.
18Those are the companions of the right.[1927]
19But they who disbelieved in Our signs - those are the companions of the left.[1928]
20Over them will be fire closed in.[1929]