The City, This Countryside — Dr Kamal Omar Translation – Parallel Quran

1 The City

لَا أُقْسِمُ بِهَٰذَا الْبَلَدِ

Nay! I bring to witness this city (Makka)

La oqsimu bihatha albaladi

وَأَنتَ حِلٌّ بِهَٰذَا الْبَلَدِ

— and you are a freeman and a citizen of this city

Waanta hillun bihatha albaladi

وَوَالِدٍ وَمَا وَلَدَ

And (I bring to witness) the begetter (father) and that (son) which he begot

Wawalidin wama walada

لَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا الْإِنسَانَ فِي كَبَدٍ

Verily, We have created the human being to face hardship

Laqad khalaqna al-insana fee kabadin

أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّن يَقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ أَحَدٌ

Does he think that none will (ever) object against him

Ayahsabu an lan yaqdira AAalayhi ahadun

يَقُولُ أَهْلَكْتُ مَالًا لُّبَدًا

He says (regretfully): “I have spent enormous wealth!”

Yaqoolu ahlaktu malan lubadan

أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّمْ يَرَهُ أَحَدٌ

Does he think that none has watched him (— neither Allah, nor the two angels imposed on him)

Ayahsabu an lam yarahu ahadun

أَلَمْ نَجْعَل لَّهُ عَيْنَيْنِ

Have We not made for him a pair of eyes

Alam najAAal lahu AAaynayni

وَلِسَانًا وَشَفَتَيْنِ

And a tongue, and a pair of lips

Walisanan washafatayni

وَهَدَيْنَاهُ النَّجْدَيْنِ

And We showed him the two ways (the righteous as well as the evil one)

Wahadaynahu alnnajdayni

فَلَا اقْتَحَمَ الْعَقَبَةَ

But he has not yet passed through the difficult terrain

Fala iqtahama alAAaqabata

وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا الْعَقَبَةُ

And what has made you realise what Al-Aqaba (the difficult terrain) is

Wama adraka ma alAAaqabatu

فَكُّ رَقَبَةٍ

It is freeing or getting freed one (human) neck from (any sort of) enslavement

Fakku raqabatin

أَوْ إِطْعَامٌ فِي يَوْمٍ ذِي مَسْغَبَةٍ

Or providing food in a day of famine and hunger

Aw itAAamun fee yawmin thee masghabatin

يَتِيمًا ذَا مَقْرَبَةٍ

to Yatim (weak in society, or an orphan,) near of kin

Yateeman tha maqrabatin

أَوْ مِسْكِينًا ذَا مَتْرَبَةٍ

or an indigent in full contentment

Aw miskeenan tha matrabatin

ثُمَّ كَانَ مِنَ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالصَّبْرِ وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالْمَرْحَمَةِ

Then he became of those who accepted Faith, and they recommended to one another for perseverance and patience; and they recommended one another for pity and compassion

Thumma kana mina allatheena amanoo watawasaw bialssabri watawasaw bialmarhamati

أُولَٰئِكَ أَصْحَابُ الْمَيْمَنَةِ

Such are the people of the desirable site

Ola-ika as-habu almaymanati

وَالَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا بِآيَاتِنَا هُمْ أَصْحَابُ الْمَشْأَمَةِ

And those who disbelieved in Ayaatina: they are the people of the site devoid of (Allah’s) mercy

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

عَلَيْهِمْ نَارٌ مُّؤْصَدَةٌ

over them (will be) Fire, made completely covered over them with no outlet

AAalayhim narun mu/sadatun

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