البلد

I swear by this city, Makkah - ^[1]

And you, [O Muhammad], are free of restriction in this city - ^[2]

And [by] the father and that which was born [of him], ^[3]

We have certainly created man into hardship. ^[4]

Does he think that never will anyone overcome him? ^[5]

He says, "I have spent wealth in abundance." ^[6]

Does he think that no one has seen him? ^[7]

Have We not made for him two eyes? ^[8]

And a tongue and two lips? ^[9]

And have shown him the two ways? ^[10]

But he has not broken through the difficult pass. ^[11]

And what can make you know what is [breaking through] the difficult pass? ^[12]

It is the freeing of a slave ^[13]

Or feeding on a day of severe hunger ^[14]

An orphan of near relationship ^[15]

Or a needy person in misery ^[16]

And then being among those who believed and advised one another to patience and advised one another to compassion. ^[17]

Those are the companions of the right. ^[18]

But they who disbelieved in Our signs - those are the companions of the left. ^[19]

Over them will be fire closed in. ^[20]