Surah Al-Balad (The City)

20 Verse(s) • Surah number 90 • Meccan

فَلَا اقْتَحَمَ الْعَقَبَةَ


11. But he has not broken through the difficult pass.

وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا الْعَقَبَةُ


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

فَكُّ رَقَبَةٍ


13. It is the freeing of a slave

أَوْ إِطْعَامٌ فِي يَوْمٍ ذِي مَسْغَبَةٍ


14. Or feeding on a day of severe hunger

يَتِيمًا ذَا مَقْرَبَةٍ


15. An orphan of near relationship

أَوْ مِسْكِينًا ذَا مَتْرَبَةٍ


16. Or a needy person in misery

ثُمَّ كَانَ مِنَ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالصَّبْرِ وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالْمَرْحَمَةِ


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

أُولَٰئِكَ أَصْحَابُ الْمَيْمَنَةِ


18. Those are the companions of the right.

وَالَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا بِآيَاتِنَا هُمْ أَصْحَابُ الْمَشْأَمَةِ


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

عَلَيْهِمْ نَارٌ مُؤْصَدَةٌ


20. Over them will be fire closed in.