لَآ أُقْسِمُ بِهَٰذَا ٱلْبَلَدِ
Laaa uqsimu bihaazal balad
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I swear by this city, Makkah -
Surah 90
The City
Город · البلد
20 ayahs
Meccan
وَأَنتَ حِلٌّۢ بِهَٰذَا ٱلْبَلَدِ
Wa anta hillum bihaazal balad
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And you, [O Muhammad], are free of restriction in this city -
وَوَالِدٍۢ وَمَا وَلَدَ
Wa waalidinw wa maa walad
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And [by] the father and that which was born [of him],
لَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ فِى كَبَدٍ
Laqad khalaqnal insaana fee kabad
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We have certainly created man into hardship.
أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّن يَقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ أَحَدٌۭ
Ayahsabu al-lai yaqdira 'alaihi ahad
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Does he think that never will anyone overcome him?
يَقُولُ أَهْلَكْتُ مَالًۭا لُّبَدًا
Yaqoolu ahlaktu maalal lubadaa
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He says, "I have spent wealth in abundance."
أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّمْ يَرَهُۥٓ أَحَدٌ
Ayahsabu al lam yarahooo ahad
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Does he think that no one has seen him?
أَلَمْ نَجْعَل لَّهُۥ عَيْنَيْنِ
Alam naj'al lahoo 'aynayn
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Have We not made for him two eyes?
وَلِسَانًۭا وَشَفَتَيْنِ
Wa lisaananw wa shafatayn
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And a tongue and two lips?
وَهَدَيْنَٰهُ ٱلنَّجْدَيْنِ
Wa hadaynaahun najdayn
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And have shown him the two ways?
فَلَا ٱقْتَحَمَ ٱلْعَقَبَةَ
Falaq tahamal-'aqabah
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But he has not broken through the difficult pass.
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْعَقَبَةُ
Wa maaa adraaka mal'aqabah
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And what can make you know what is [breaking through] the difficult pass?
فَكُّ رَقَبَةٍ
Fakku raqabah
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It is the freeing of a slave
أَوْ إِطْعَٰمٌۭ فِى يَوْمٍۢ ذِى مَسْغَبَةٍۢ
Aw it'aamun fee yawmin zee masghabah
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Or feeding on a day of severe hunger
يَتِيمًۭا ذَا مَقْرَبَةٍ
Yateeman zaa maqrabah
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An orphan of near relationship
أَوْ مِسْكِينًۭا ذَا مَتْرَبَةٍۢ
Aw miskeenan zaa matrabah
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Or a needy person in misery
ثُمَّ كَانَ مِنَ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَتَوَاصَوْا۟ بِٱلصَّبْرِ وَتَوَاصَوْا۟ بِٱلْمَرْحَمَةِ
Summa kaana minal lazeena aamanoo wa tawaasaw bissabri wa tawaasaw bilmarhamah
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And then being among those who believed and advised one another to patience and advised one another to compassion.
أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ أَصْحَٰبُ ٱلْمَيْمَنَةِ
Ulaaa'ika As-haabul maimanah
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Those are the companions of the right.
وَٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا هُمْ أَصْحَٰبُ ٱلْمَشْـَٔمَةِ
Wallazeena kafaroo bi aayaatinaa hum as-haabul Mash'amah
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But they who disbelieved in Our signs - those are the companions of the left.
عَلَيْهِمْ نَارٌۭ مُّؤْصَدَةٌۢ
Alaihim naarum mu'sadah
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Over them will be fire closed in.