{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/quran/09001.htm","path":"isl/quran/09001.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/quran/09001.htm","text":"The Holy Quran, tr. by Yusuf Ali, [1934]\n1. I do call to witness\n This City;\u2014\n2. Waanta hillun bihatha albaladi\n2. And thou art a freeman\n Of this City;\u2014\n3. And (the mystic ties\n of) Parent and Child;\u2014\n4. Laqad khalaqna al-insana fee kabadin\n4. Verily We have created\n Man into toil and struggle.\n5. Ayahsabu an lan yaqdira AAalayhi ahadun\n5. Thinketh he, that none\n Hath power over him?\n6. Yaqoolu ahlaktu malan lubadan\n6. He may say (boastfully):\n \"Wealth have I squandered\n In abundance!\"\n7. Ayahsabu an lam yarahu ahadun\n7. Thinketh he that none\n Beholdeth him?\n8. Alam najAAal lahu AAaynayni\n8. Have We not made\n For him a pair of eyes?\u2014\n9. And a tongue,\n And a pair of lips?\u2014\n10. And shown him\n The two highways?\n11. But he hath made no haste\n On the path that is steep.\n12. Wama adraka ma alAAaqabatu\n12. And what will explain\n To thee the path that is steep?\u2014\n13. (It is:) freeing the bondman;\n14. Aw itAAamun fee yawmin thee masghabatin\n14. Or the giving of food\n In a day of privation\n15. To the orphan\n With claims of relationship,\n16. Aw miskeenan tha matrabatin\n16. Or to the indigent\n (Down) in the dust.\n17. Thumma kana mina allatheena amanoo watawasaw bialssabri watawasaw bialmarhamati\n17. Then will he be\n Of those who believe,\n And enjoin patience, (constancy,\n And self-restraint), and enjoin\n Deeds of kindness and compassion.\n18. Ola-ika as-habu almaymanati\n18. Such are the Companions\n Of the Right Hand.\n19. Waallatheena kafaroo bi-ayatina hum as-habu almash-amati\n19. But those who reject\n Our Signs, they are\n The (unhappy) Companions\n Of the Left Hand.\n20. AAalayhim narun mu/sadatun\n20. On them will be Fire\n Vaulted over (all round).","title":"The Quran: S\u016bra XC.: Balad, or The City.: Section 1 ...","type":"page"}