90. Surah Al-Balad
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In the Name of Allah—the Most Compassionate, Most Merciful
I swear by this city [i.e., Makkah]
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And you, [O Muḥammad], are free of restriction in this city
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And [by] the father1 and that which was born [of him],
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We have certainly created man into hardship.
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Does he think that never will anyone overcome him?
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He says, "I have spent wealth in abundance."
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Does he think that no one has seen him?
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Have We not made for him two eyes?
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And a tongue and two lips?
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And have shown him the two ways?1
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But he has not broken through the difficult pass.1
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And what can make you know what is [breaking through] the difficult pass?
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It is the freeing of a slave
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Or feeding on a day of severe hunger
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An orphan of near relationship
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Or a needy person in misery
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And then being among those who believed and advised one another to patience and advised one another to compassion.
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Those are the companions of the right.1
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But they who disbelieved in Our signs - those are the companions of the left.1
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Over them will be fire closed in.1
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