90:1
لَآ أُقْسِمُ بِهَٰذَا ٱلْبَلَدِ 
1
lā uq'simu bihādhā l-baladi
— Transliteration
I swear by this city, Makkah -
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Surah 90 · 20 verses
Al-Balad
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90:2
وَأَنتَ حِلٌّۢ بِهَٰذَا ٱلْبَلَدِ 2
wa-anta ḥillun bihādhā l-baladi
— Transliteration
And you, [O Muhammad], are free of restriction in this city -
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90:3
وَوَالِدٍ وَمَا وَلَدَ 3
wawālidin wamā walada
— Transliteration
And [by] the father and that which was born [of him],
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90:4
لَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ فِى كَبَدٍ 4
laqad khalaqnā l-insāna fī kabadin
— Transliteration
We have certainly created man into hardship.
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90:5
أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّن يَقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ أَحَدٌ 5
ayaḥsabu an lan yaqdira ʿalayhi aḥadun
— Transliteration
Does he think that never will anyone overcome him?
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90:6
يَقُولُ أَهْلَكْتُ مَالًا لُّبَدًا 6
yaqūlu ahlaktu mālan lubadan
— Transliteration
He says, "I have spent wealth in abundance."
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90:7
أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّمْ يَرَهُۥٓ أَحَدٌ 7
ayaḥsabu an lam yarahu aḥadun
— Transliteration
Does he think that no one has seen him?
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90:8
أَلَمْ نَجْعَل لَّهُۥ عَيْنَيْنِ 8
alam najʿal lahu ʿaynayni
— Transliteration
Have We not made for him two eyes?
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90:9
وَلِسَانًا وَشَفَتَيْنِ 9
walisānan washafatayni
— Transliteration
And a tongue and two lips?
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90:10
وَهَدَيْنَٰهُ ٱلنَّجْدَيْنِ 10
wahadaynāhu l-najdayni
— Transliteration
And have shown him the two ways?
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90:11
فَلَا ٱقْتَحَمَ ٱلْعَقَبَةَ 11
falā iq'taḥama l-ʿaqabata
— Transliteration
But he has not broken through the difficult pass.
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90:12
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْعَقَبَةُ 12
wamā adrāka mā l-ʿaqabatu
— Transliteration
And what can make you know what is [breaking through] the difficult pass?
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90:13
فَكُّ رَقَبَةٍ 13
fakku raqabatin
— Transliteration
It is the freeing of a slave
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90:14
أَوْ إِطْعَٰمٌ فِى يَوْمٍ ذِى مَسْغَبَةٍ 14
aw iṭ'ʿāmun fī yawmin dhī masghabatin
— Transliteration
Or feeding on a day of severe hunger
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90:15
يَتِيمًا ذَا مَقْرَبَةٍ 15
yatīman dhā maqrabatin
— Transliteration
An orphan of near relationship
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90:16
أَوْ مِسْكِينًا ذَا مَتْرَبَةٍ 16
aw mis'kīnan dhā matrabatin
— Transliteration
Or a needy person in misery
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90:17
ثُمَّ كَانَ مِنَ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَتَوَاصَوْا۟ بِٱلصَّبْرِ وَتَوَاصَوْا۟ بِٱلْمَرْحَمَةِ 17
thumma kāna mina alladhīna āmanū watawāṣaw bil-ṣabri watawāṣaw bil-marḥamati
— Transliteration
And then being among those who believed and advised one another to patience and advised one another to compassion.
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90:18
أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ أَصْحَٰبُ ٱلْمَيْمَنَةِ 18
ulāika aṣḥābu l-maymanati
— Transliteration
Those are the companions of the right.
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90:19
وَٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا هُمْ أَصْحَٰبُ ٱلْمَشْـَٔمَةِ 19
wa-alladhīna kafarū biāyātinā hum aṣḥābu l-mashamati
— Transliteration
But they who disbelieved in Our signs - those are the companions of the left.
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90:20
عَلَيْهِمْ نَارٌ مُّؤْصَدَةٌۢ 20
ʿalayhim nārun mu'ṣadatun
— Transliteration
Over them will be fire closed in.
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