| | Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri rendition of Surah The City, This Countryside(al-Balad)
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| 90:1 | | I swear by this city (Mecca) | | 90:2 | | (O My Esteemed Beloved,) because you are residing in it. | | 90:3 | | (O My Esteemed Beloved!) By (your) father (Adam or Ibrahim [Abraham]) and by those who are born, | | 90:4 | | Indeed, We have created man (ever suffering) in rigours | | 90:5 | | Does he think that no one can ever overpower him | | 90:6 | | (Boasting,) he says: ‘I have spent heaps of wealth. | | 90:7 | | Does he think that no one has seen him (making this extravagant spending) | | 90:8 | | Have We not made for him two eyes | | 90:9 | | And (have We not given him) a tongue and two lips | | 90:10 | | And (have We also not) shown him the two highways (of good and evil) | | 90:11 | | But he has not yet attempted the steep ascent (of the Din [Religion]) of truth and the practical life dedicated to good and piety) | | 90:12 | | And what have you thought of the steep ascent (of the rigours of the Din [Religion] of truth) | | 90:13 | | It is freeing a neck (from slavery and subjugation) | | 90:14 | | Or feeding on a day of scarcity (the poor and the needy during famine and scarcity i.e., striving to put an end to their sufferings and economic crises) | | 90:15 | | The orphaned relative | | 90:16 | | Or the poverty-stricken destitute who is completely rundown (and homeless) | | 90:17 | | (Provided this striving soul is) one of those who believe and advise one another patience and tolerance and urge one another for mutual affection and mercy | | 90:18 | | These are the people of the Right Hand (i.e., the privileged and the pardoned) | | 90:19 | | And those who reject Our signs are the people of the Left Hand (the callous and the doomed) | | 90:20 | | Fire will be enclosed upon them (covering from all sides) |
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