Soorah Al-Balad (The City)
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| In the Name of Allaah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. |
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I swear by this city (Makkah); |
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And you are free (from sin, to punish the enemies of Islaam on the Day of the conquest) in this city (Makkah), [1] |
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And by the begetter (i.e. Adam alayhis-salaam) and that which he begot (i.e. his progeny); |
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Verily, We have created man in toil. |
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Thinks he that none can overcome him? |
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He says (boastfully): "I have wasted wealth in abundance!" |
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Thinks he that none sees him? |
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Have We not made for him a pair of eyes? |
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And a tongue and a pair of lips? |
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And shown him the two ways (good and evil)? |
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But he has made no effort to pass on the path that is steep. |
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And what will make you know the path that is steep? |
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(It is) Freeing a neck (slave, etc.) [2] |
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Or giving food in a day of hunger (famine), |
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To an orphan near of kin. |
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Or to a Miskeen (poor) afflicted with misery. |
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Then he became one of those who believed, and recommended one another to perseverance and patience, and (also) recommended one another to pity and compassion. |
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They are those on the Right Hand (the dwellers of Paradise), |
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But those who disbelieved in Our Ayaat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.), they are those on the Left Hand (the dwellers of Hell). |
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The Fire will be shut over them (i.e. they will be enveloped by the Fire without any opening or window or outlet. [3] |
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Footnotes |
[1] (90):2 - Narrated Ibn 'Abbaas (radi-Allaahu 'anhu):
On the day of the conquest of Makkah, Allaah's Messenger (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said, "Allaah has made this town a sanctuary. Its thorny bushes should not be cut, its game should not be chased, and its fallen things should not be picked up except by one who would announce it publicly." [Saheeh Bukhaaree, Vol. 2, Hadeeth No. 657]
- See the footnote of (2):191
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[2] (90):13 Narrated Aboo Hurairah (radi-Allaahu 'anhu):
The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said: "Whoever frees a Muslim slave, Allaah will save all the parts of his body from the (Hell) Fire, as he has freed the body-parts of the slave." [Saheeh Bukhaaree, Vol. 3, Hadeeth No. 693] |
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[3] (90):20 "Therein breathing out with deep sighs and roaring will be their portion, and therein they will not hear." [Soorah Al-Anbiyaa', (21):100] **
** Ibn Mas'ood (radi-Allaahu 'anhu) recited this Verse and then said:
"When those (who are destined to remain in the Hell-Fire forever) will be thrown in the Hell-fire, each of them will be put in a separate Taboot (Box) of Fire, so that he will not see anyone punished in the Hell-fire except he himself." Then Ibn Mas'ood recited this Verse (21):100. [Tafseer Ibn Kathir, Tabaree and Qurtubee] |
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