Surah Al-Balad (The City) 90

Revealed 35th in the Qur'an

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I swear by this city,

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And you are lawfully [allowed] in this city -

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And [by] the father 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 no one will ever 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 two eyes for him?

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And a tongue and two lips?

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And have guided him to the two ways?

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But he has not attempted the steep path.

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And what can make you know what the steep path is?

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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 [down] in the dust

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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.

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

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A Fire will be closed in over them. *Matthew 25:41