# Nakafa Framework: LLM

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Al-Quran - Surah Al-Balad (The City)

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## Al-Balad

**Translation:** The City
**Revelation:** Meccan
**Number of Verses:** 20

### Pre-Bismillah

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ

*In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful.*

### Verses

#### Verse 1

لَا أُقْسِمُ بِهَٰذَا الْبَلَدِ

**Transliteration:** Laaa uqsimu bihaazal balad

**Translation:** I swear by this city, Makkah -

#### Verse 2

وَأَنتَ حِلٌّ بِهَٰذَا الْبَلَدِ

**Transliteration:** Wa anta hillum bihaazal balad

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

#### Verse 3

وَوَالِدٍ وَمَا وَلَدَ

**Transliteration:** Wa waalidinw wa maa walad

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

#### Verse 4

لَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا الْإِنسَانَ فِي كَبَدٍ

**Transliteration:** Laqad khalaqnal insaana fee kabad

**Translation:** We have certainly created man into hardship.

#### Verse 5

أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّن يَقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ أَحَدٌ

**Transliteration:** Ayahsabu al-lai yaqdira 'alaihi ahad

**Translation:** Does he think that never will anyone overcome him?

#### Verse 6

يَقُولُ أَهْلَكْتُ مَالًا لُّبَدًا

**Transliteration:** Yaqoolu ahlaktu maalal lubadaa

**Translation:** He says, "I have spent wealth in abundance."

#### Verse 7

أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّمْ يَرَهُ أَحَدٌ

**Transliteration:** Ayahsabu al lam yarahooo ahad

**Translation:** Does he think that no one has seen him?

#### Verse 8

أَلَمْ نَجْعَل لَّهُ عَيْنَيْنِ

**Transliteration:** Alam naj'al lahoo 'aynayn

**Translation:** Have We not made for him two eyes?

#### Verse 9

وَلِسَانًا وَشَفَتَيْنِ

**Transliteration:** Wa lisaananw wa shafatayn

**Translation:** And a tongue and two lips?

#### Verse 10

وَهَدَيْنَاهُ النَّجْدَيْنِ

**Transliteration:** Wa hadaynaahun najdayn

**Translation:** And have shown him the two ways?

#### Verse 11

فَلَا اقْتَحَمَ الْعَقَبَةَ

**Transliteration:** Falaq tahamal-'aqabah

**Translation:** But he has not broken through the difficult pass.

#### Verse 12

وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا الْعَقَبَةُ

**Transliteration:** Wa maaa adraaka mal'aqabah

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

#### Verse 13

فَكُّ رَقَبَةٍ

**Transliteration:** Fakku raqabah

**Translation:** It is the freeing of a slave

#### Verse 14

أَوْ إِطْعَامٌ فِي يَوْمٍ ذِي مَسْغَبَةٍ

**Transliteration:** Aw it'aamun fee yawmin zee masghabah

**Translation:** Or feeding on a day of severe hunger

#### Verse 15

يَتِيمًا ذَا مَقْرَبَةٍ

**Transliteration:** Yateeman zaa maqrabah

**Translation:** An orphan of near relationship

#### Verse 16

أَوْ مِسْكِينًا ذَا مَتْرَبَةٍ

**Transliteration:** Aw miskeenan zaa matrabah

**Translation:** Or a needy person in misery

#### Verse 17

ثُمَّ كَانَ مِنَ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالصَّبْرِ وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالْمَرْحَمَةِ

**Transliteration:** Summa kaana minal lazeena aamanoo wa tawaasaw bissabri wa tawaasaw bilmarhamah

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

#### Verse 18

أُولَٰئِكَ أَصْحَابُ الْمَيْمَنَةِ

**Transliteration:** Ulaaa'ika As-haabul maimanah

**Translation:** Those are the companions of the right.

#### Verse 19

وَالَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا بِآيَاتِنَا هُمْ أَصْحَابُ الْمَشْأَمَةِ

**Transliteration:** Wallazeena kafaroo bi aayaatinaa hum as-haabul Mash'amah

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

#### Verse 20

عَلَيْهِمْ نَارٌ مُّؤْصَدَةٌ

**Transliteration:** Alaihim naarum mu'sadah

**Translation:** Over them will be fire closed in.