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البَلَد
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Surah 90 - Verse 1
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Verse 1

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ لَآ أُقْسِمُ بِهَٰذَا ٱلْبَلَدِ

English Translation:

I swear by this city, Makkah

Verse 2

وَأَنتَ حِلٌّۢ بِهَٰذَا ٱلْبَلَدِ

English Translation:

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

Verse 3

وَوَالِدٍ وَمَا وَلَدَ

English Translation:

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

Verse 4

لَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ فِى كَبَدٍ

English Translation:

We have certainly created man into hardship

Verse 5

أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّن يَقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ أَحَدٌ

English Translation:

Does he think that never will anyone overcome him

Verse 6

يَقُولُ أَهْلَكْتُ مَالًا لُّبَدًا

English Translation:

He says, "I have spent wealth in abundance

Verse 7

أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّمْ يَرَهُۥٓ أَحَدٌ

English Translation:

Does he think that no one has seen him

Verse 8

أَلَمْ نَجْعَل لَّهُۥ عَيْنَيْنِ

English Translation:

Have We not made for him two eyes

Verse 9

وَلِسَانًا وَشَفَتَيْنِ

English Translation:

And a tongue and two lips

Verse 10

وَهَدَيْنَٰهُ ٱلنَّجْدَيْنِ

English Translation:

And have shown him the two ways

Verse 11

فَلَا ٱقْتَحَمَ ٱلْعَقَبَةَ

English Translation:

But he has not broken through the difficult pass

Verse 12

وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْعَقَبَةُ

English Translation:

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

Verse 13

فَكُّ رَقَبَةٍ

English Translation:

It is the freeing of a slave

Verse 14

أَوْ إِطْعَٰمٌ فِى يَوْمٍ ذِى مَسْغَبَةٍ

English Translation:

Or feeding on a day of severe hunger

Verse 15

يَتِيمًا ذَا مَقْرَبَةٍ

English Translation:

An orphan of near relationship

Verse 16

أَوْ مِسْكِينًا ذَا مَتْرَبَةٍ

English Translation:

Or a needy person in misery

Verse 17

ثُمَّ كَانَ مِنَ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَتَوَاصَوْا۟ بِٱلصَّبْرِ وَتَوَاصَوْا۟ بِٱلْمَرْحَمَةِ

English Translation:

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

Verse 18

أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ أَصْحَٰبُ ٱلْمَيْمَنَةِ

English Translation:

Those are the companions of the right

Verse 19

وَٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا هُمْ أَصْحَٰبُ ٱلْمَشْـَٔمَةِ

English Translation:

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

Verse 20

عَلَيْهِمْ نَارٌ مُّؤْصَدَةٌۢ

English Translation:

Over them will be fire closed in