90 The Country -Al-Balad
In the Name of Allah, the
Merciful, the Most Merciful
[90.1] No, I swear by this country (
[90.2] and you are a lodger in this country.
[90.3] And by the giver of birth, and whom he fathered,
[90.4] We created the human in fatigue.
[90.5] Does he think that none has power over him!
[90.6] He will say: 'I have destroyed a vast wealth. '
[90.7] Does he think that none has observed him?
[90.8] Have We not given him two eyes,
[90.9] a tongue, and two lips,
[90.10] and guided him on the two paths (of good and
evil)?
[90.11] Yet he has not scaled the height.
[90.12] What could let you know what the height is!
[90.13] (It is) the freeing of a slave,
[90.14] the giving of food upon the day of hunger
[90.15] to an orphaned relative
[90.16] or to a needy person in distress;
[90.17] so that he becomes one of those who believe,
charge each other to be patient, and charge each other to be merciful.
[90.18] Those are the Companions of the Right.
[90.19] But those who disbelieve in Our verses, they are
the Companions of the Left,
[90.20] with the Fire closed above them.