| | Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali rendition of Surah The City, This Countryside(al-Balad)
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| 90:1 | | No! I swear by this country, - (Or: city | | 90:2 | | And you (i.e., the Prophet) are an inhabitant of this country | | 90:3 | | And (I swear) (by) the begetter and what he begot | | 90:4 | | Indeed We already created man in suffering | | 90:5 | | Does he reckon that no one can ever determine over him | | 90:6 | | He says, "I have consumed stacked wealth." | | 90:7 | | Does he reckon that none has seen him | | 90:8 | | Have We not made for him two eyes | | 90:9 | | And a tongue, and two lips | | 90:10 | | And guided him on the two highways (of good and evil) | | 90:11 | | Yet he has not rushed along the uneven (Or: steep) track | | 90:12 | | And what makes you realize what the uneven track is | | 90:13 | | It is the freeing of a slave, (Literally: the untying of a neck | | 90:14 | | Or feeding upon a day of famine | | 90:15 | | An orphan of (Literally: owning) near relationship | | 90:16 | | Or an indigent man in starvation; (Literally: in dusty circumstances | | 90:17 | | Thereafter he is one of the ones who believed, and enjoined one another to have patience, and enjoined one another to do merciful deeds | | 90:18 | | Those are the companions of the position of Rightness | | 90:19 | | And the ones who disbelieve in Our signs, they are the companions of the position of sinister (befalling); (Or: the Hand | | 90:20 | | Over them is a Fire without any outlet (Literally: vaulted/over) |
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