90 The Country -Al-Balad

In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful

[90.1] No, I swear by this country (Mecca),

[90.2] and you are a lodger in this country.

[90.3] And by the giver of birth, and whom he fathered,

[90.4] We created the human in fatigue.

[90.5] Does he think that none has power over him!

[90.6] He will say: 'I have destroyed a vast wealth. '

[90.7] Does he think that none has observed him?

[90.8] Have We not given him two eyes,

[90.9] a tongue, and two lips,

[90.10] and guided him on the two paths (of good and evil)?

[90.11] Yet he has not scaled the height.

[90.12] What could let you know what the height is!

[90.13] (It is) the freeing of a slave,

[90.14] the giving of food upon the day of hunger

[90.15] to an orphaned relative

[90.16] or to a needy person in distress;

[90.17] so that he becomes one of those who believe, charge each other to be patient, and charge each other to be merciful.

[90.18] Those are the Companions of the Right.

[90.19] But those who disbelieve in Our verses, they are the Companions of the Left,

[90.20] with the Fire closed above them.