The City, This Countryside — Aisha Bewley Translation – Parallel Quran

1 The City

لَا أُقْسِمُ بِهَٰذَا الْبَلَدِ

I swear by this city —

La oqsimu bihatha albaladi

وَأَنتَ حِلٌّ بِهَٰذَا الْبَلَدِ

and you are resident in this city —

Waanta hillun bihatha albaladi

وَوَالِدٍ وَمَا وَلَدَ

and by a father and what he fathered,

Wawalidin wama walada

لَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا الْإِنسَانَ فِي كَبَدٍ

We created man in trouble.

Laqad khalaqna al-insana fee kabadin

أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّن يَقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ أَحَدٌ

Does he imagine that no one has power over him?

Ayahsabu an lan yaqdira AAalayhi ahadun

يَقُولُ أَهْلَكْتُ مَالًا لُّبَدًا

He says, ´I have consumed vast quantities of wealth.´

Yaqoolu ahlaktu malan lubadan

أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّمْ يَرَهُ أَحَدٌ

Does he imagine that no one has seen him?

Ayahsabu an lam yarahu ahadun

أَلَمْ نَجْعَل لَّهُ عَيْنَيْنِ

Have We not given him two eyes,

Alam najAAal lahu AAaynayni

وَلِسَانًا وَشَفَتَيْنِ

and a tongue and two lips

Walisanan washafatayni

وَهَدَيْنَاهُ النَّجْدَيْنِ

and shown him the two highways?

Wahadaynahu alnnajdayni

فَلَا اقْتَحَمَ الْعَقَبَةَ

But he has not braved the steep ascent.

Fala iqtahama alAAaqabata

وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا الْعَقَبَةُ

What will convey to you what the steep ascent is?

Wama adraka ma alAAaqabatu

فَكُّ رَقَبَةٍ

It is freeing a slave

Fakku raqabatin

أَوْ إِطْعَامٌ فِي يَوْمٍ ذِي مَسْغَبَةٍ

or feeding on a day of hunger

Aw itAAamun fee yawmin thee masghabatin

يَتِيمًا ذَا مَقْرَبَةٍ

an orphaned relative

Yateeman tha maqrabatin

أَوْ مِسْكِينًا ذَا مَتْرَبَةٍ

or a poor man in the dust;

Aw miskeenan tha matrabatin

ثُمَّ كَانَ مِنَ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالصَّبْرِ وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالْمَرْحَمَةِ

then to be one of those who have iman and urge each other to steadfastness and urge each other to compassion.

Thumma kana mina allatheena amanoo watawasaw bialssabri watawasaw bialmarhamati

أُولَٰئِكَ أَصْحَابُ الْمَيْمَنَةِ

Those are the Companions of the Right.

Ola-ika as-habu almaymanati

وَالَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا بِآيَاتِنَا هُمْ أَصْحَابُ الْمَشْأَمَةِ

Those who reject Our signs, they are the Companions of the Left.

Waallatheena kafaroo bi-ayatina hum as-habu almash-amati

عَلَيْهِمْ نَارٌ مُّؤْصَدَةٌ

Above them is a sealed vault of Fire.

AAalayhim narun mu/sadatun

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