Surah Al-Balad

لَآ اُقْسِمُ بِهٰذَا الْبَلَدِۙ ۝١

Lā uqsimu bihāżal-balad

1. I swear by this land.

وَاَنْتَ حِلٌّۢ بِهٰذَا الْبَلَدِۙ ۝٢

Wa anta ḥillum bihāżal-balad

2. And you are a resident of this land.

وَوَالِدٍ وَّمَا وَلَدَۙ ۝٣

Wa wālidiw wa mā walad

3. And by a father and what he fathered.

لَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا الْاِنْسَانَ فِيْ كَبَدٍۗ ۝٤

Laqod kholaqnal-insāna fī kabad

4. We created man in distress.

اَيَحْسَبُ اَنْ لَّنْ يَّقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ اَحَدٌ ۘ ۝٥

Ayaḥsabu allay yaqdiro ‘alaihi aḥad

5. Does he think that no one has power over him?

يَقُوْلُ اَهْلَكْتُ مَالًا لُّبَدًاۗ ۝٦

Yaqūlu ahlaktu mālal lubadā

6. He says, “I have used up so much money.”

اَيَحْسَبُ اَنْ لَّمْ يَرَهٗٓ اَحَدٌۗ ۝٧

Ayaḥsabu allam yarohū aḥad

7. Does he think that no one sees him?

اَلَمْ نَجْعَلْ لَّهٗ عَيْنَيْنِۙ ۝٨

Alam naj‘al lahū ‘ainain

8. Did We not give him two eyes?

وَلِسَانًا وَّشَفَتَيْنِۙ ۝٩

Wa lisānaw wa syafatain

9. And a tongue, and two lips?

وَهَدَيْنٰهُ النَّجْدَيْنِۙ ۝١٠

Wa hadaināhun-najdain

10. And We showed him the two ways?

فَلَا اقْتَحَمَ الْعَقَبَةَ ۖ ۝١١

Falaqtaḥamal-‘aqobah

11. But he did not brave the ascent.

وَمَآ اَدْرٰىكَ مَا الْعَقَبَةُ ۗ ۝١٢

Wa mā adrōka mal-‘aqobah

12. And what will explain to you what the ascent is?

فَكُّ رَقَبَةٍۙ ۝١٣

Fakku roqobah

13. The freeing of a slave.

اَوْ اِطْعَامٌ فِيْ يَوْمٍ ذِيْ مَسْغَبَةٍۙ ۝١٤

Au iṭ‘āmun fī yaumin żī masghobah

14. Or the feeding on a day of hunger.

يَّتِيْمًا ذَا مَقْرَبَةٍۙ ۝١٥

Yatīman żā maqrobah

15. An orphan near of kin.

اَوْ مِسْكِيْنًا ذَا مَتْرَبَةٍۗ ۝١٦

Au miskīnan żā matrobah

16. Or a destitute in the dust.

ثُمَّ كَانَ مِنَ الَّذِيْنَ اٰمَنُوْا وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالصَّبْرِ وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالْمَرْحَمَةِۗ ۝١٧

Ṡumma kāna minal-lażīna āmanū wa tawāṣou biṣ-ṣobri wa tawāṣou bil-marḥamah

17. Then he becomes of those who believe, and advise one another to patience, and advise one another to kindness.

اُولٰۤىِٕكَ اَصْحٰبُ الْمَيْمَنَةِۗ ۝١٨

Ulā-ika aṣḥābul-maimanah

18. These are the people of happiness.

وَالَّذِيْنَ كَفَرُوْا بِاٰيٰتِنَا هُمْ اَصْحٰبُ الْمَشْـَٔمَةِۗ ۝١٩

Wal-lażīna kafarū bi'āyātinā hum aṣḥābul-masy'amah

19. But as for those who defy Our revelations—these are the people of misery.

عَلَيْهِمْ نَارٌ مُّؤْصَدَةٌ ࣖ ۝٢٠

‘Alaihim nārum mu'ṣodah

20. Upon them is a padlocked Fire.