Al-Balad

Laaa uqsimu bihaazal balad

I swear by this city, Makkah -

Wa anta hillum bihaazal balad

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

Wa waalidinw wa maa walad

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

Laqad khalaqnal insaana fee kabad

We have certainly created man into hardship.

Ayahsabu al-lai yaqdira 'alaihi ahad

Does he think that never will anyone overcome him?

Yaqoolu ahlaktu maalal lubadaa

He says, "I have spent wealth in abundance."

Ayahsabu al lam yarahooo ahad

Does he think that no one has seen him?

Alam naj'al lahoo 'aynayn

Have We not made for him two eyes?

Wa lisaananw wa shafatayn

And a tongue and two lips?

Wa hadaynaahun najdayn

And have shown him the two ways?

Falaq tahamal-'aqabah

But he has not broken through the difficult pass.

Wa maaa adraaka mal'aqabah

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

Fakku raqabah

It is the freeing of a slave

Aw it'aamun fee yawmin zee masghabah

Or feeding on a day of severe hunger

Yateeman zaa maqrabah

An orphan of near relationship

Aw miskeenan zaa matrabah

Or a needy person in misery

Summa kaana minal lazeena aamanoo wa tawaasaw bissabri wa tawaasaw bilmarhamah

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

Ulaaa'ika As-haabul maimanah

Those are the companions of the right.

Wallazeena kafaroo bi aayaatinaa hum as-haabul Mash'amah

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