سُورَةُ البَلَدِ

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I swear by this city, Makkah -

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

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

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We have certainly created man into hardship.

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Does he think that never will anyone overcome him?

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He says, "I have spent wealth in abundance."

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Does he think that no one has seen him?

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Have We not made for him two eyes?

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And a tongue and two lips?

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And have shown him the two ways?

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But he has not broken through the difficult pass.

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

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It is the freeing of a slave

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Or feeding on a day of severe hunger

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An orphan of near relationship

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Or a needy person in misery

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And then being among those who believed and advised one another to patience and advised one another to compassion.

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Those are the companions of the right.

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But they who disbelieved in Our signs - those are the companions of the left.

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Over them will be fire closed in.