The City, This Countryside — Bridges Translation – Parallel Quran

1 The City

لَا أُقْسِمُ بِهَٰذَا الْبَلَدِ

No! I swear by this city,

La oqsimu bihatha albaladi

وَأَنتَ حِلٌّ بِهَٰذَا الْبَلَدِ

and yousg are free of restriction this city.

Waanta hillun bihatha albaladi

وَوَالِدٍ وَمَا وَلَدَ

By the begetter and what he has begotten—

Wawalidin wama walada

لَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا الْإِنسَانَ فِي كَبَدٍ

We have certainly created man in distress.

Laqad khalaqna al-insana fee kabadin

أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّن يَقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ أَحَدٌ

Does he think that no one will be able to restrain him?

Ayahsabu an lan yaqdira AAalayhi ahadun

يَقُولُ أَهْلَكْتُ مَالًا لُّبَدًا

He says, “I have consumed stacks of wealth.”

Yaqoolu ahlaktu malan lubadan

أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّمْ يَرَهُ أَحَدٌ

Does he think that no one has seen him?

Ayahsabu an lam yarahu ahadun

أَلَمْ نَجْعَل لَّهُ عَيْنَيْنِ

Have We not made for him two eyes

Alam najAAal lahu AAaynayni

وَلِسَانًا وَشَفَتَيْنِ

and a tongue and two lips,

Walisanan washafatayni

وَهَدَيْنَاهُ النَّجْدَيْنِ

and showed him the two courses?

Wahadaynahu alnnajdayni

فَلَا اقْتَحَمَ الْعَقَبَةَ

But he did not brave the difficult route.

Fala iqtahama alAAaqabata

وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا الْعَقَبَةُ

And what can make you realize what the difficult route is?

Wama adraka ma alAAaqabatu

فَكُّ رَقَبَةٍ

(It is) the freeing of a neck (from the yokes of slavery),

Fakku raqabatin

أَوْ إِطْعَامٌ فِي يَوْمٍ ذِي مَسْغَبَةٍ

or the feeding—on a day of starvation—of

Aw itAAamun fee yawmin thee masghabatin

يَتِيمًا ذَا مَقْرَبَةٍ

an orphaned relative

Yateeman tha maqrabatin

أَوْ مِسْكِينًا ذَا مَتْرَبَةٍ

or a destitute person in the dust,

Aw miskeenan tha matrabatin

ثُمَّ كَانَ مِنَ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالصَّبْرِ وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالْمَرْحَمَةِ

then becoming of those who attained faith and enjoined upon one another patience and enjoined upon one another compassion—

Thumma kana mina allatheena amanoo watawasaw bialssabri watawasaw bialmarhamati

أُولَٰئِكَ أَصْحَابُ الْمَيْمَنَةِ

those are the fellows of the rightness.

Ola-ika as-habu almaymanati

وَالَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا بِآيَاتِنَا هُمْ أَصْحَابُ الْمَشْأَمَةِ

But those who denied Our revelations—those are the fellows of the ill-omened;

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

عَلَيْهِمْ نَارٌ مُّؤْصَدَةٌ

over them is a fire with no exit.

AAalayhim narun mu/sadatun

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