IslamAwakened.com Qur'an Tafsir of Surah al-Balad - The City, This Countryside as rendered by Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)
90:1
I swear by this City;
90:2
And O beloved! you are dwelling in this city;
90:3
And by your father Ibrahim and his progeny that you are;
90:4
Undoubtedly, We created man in toil.
90:5
Does man think that none will overcome him?
90:6
He says, 'I have wasted heaps of wealth;
90:7
Does man think that none has seen him?
90:8
have We not made his two eyes;
90:9
And a tongue and two lips'?
90:10
And pointed to him the way of two raised things.
90:11
Then he hurried not to the steep valley without deliberation;
90:12
And what did you know what that valley is?
90:13
It is the freeing of the neck of a bondman.
90:14
Or providing food in a day of hunger.
90:15
To an orphan near' of kin;
90:16
Or to a poor man lying in the dust.
90:17
Again, he should he of those who believed and counseled among themselves to be steadfast and counseled among themselves to be merciful.
90:18
These are the people of the right .
90:19
But those who disbelieved Our signs, they are the people of , the left.
90:20
Over them is a fire, that after casting them therein it has been closed from above.
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