The City, This Countryside — Munir Mezyed Translation – Parallel Quran

1 The City

لَا أُقْسِمُ بِهَٰذَا الْبَلَدِ

I (do not need to) swear by this town (‘Mecca’)

La oqsimu bihatha albaladi

وَأَنتَ حِلٌّ بِهَٰذَا الْبَلَدِ

You are free, (O’ ‘Muhammad’, to punish or forgive the ‘Polytheists’) in this town.

Waanta hillun bihatha albaladi

وَوَالِدٍ وَمَا وَلَدَ

By the father and that which he begets,

Wawalidin wama walada

لَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا الْإِنسَانَ فِي كَبَدٍ

Indeed We have created man to cope with adversity

Laqad khalaqna al-insana fee kabadin

أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّن يَقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ أَحَدٌ

Does he think that no one can triumph over him?!

Ayahsabu an lan yaqdira AAalayhi ahadun

يَقُولُ أَهْلَكْتُ مَالًا لُّبَدًا

He says (boastfully): "I have squandered huge fortunes."

Yaqoolu ahlaktu malan lubadan

أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّمْ يَرَهُ أَحَدٌ

Does he think that no one sees him?

Ayahsabu an lam yarahu ahadun

أَلَمْ نَجْعَل لَّهُ عَيْنَيْنِ

Have We not made for him two eyes,

Alam najAAal lahu AAaynayni

وَلِسَانًا وَشَفَتَيْنِ

A tongue, and two lips,

Walisanan washafatayni

وَهَدَيْنَاهُ النَّجْدَيْنِ

And shown him the two ways?

Wahadaynahu alnnajdayni

فَلَا اقْتَحَمَ الْعَقَبَةَ

Yet he tried not to break through the ‘Steep Path’.

Fala iqtahama alAAaqabata

وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا الْعَقَبَةُ

What would make you aware of what the ‘Steep Path’ might be?

Wama adraka ma alAAaqabatu

فَكُّ رَقَبَةٍ

It is setting a slave free

Fakku raqabatin

أَوْ إِطْعَامٌ فِي يَوْمٍ ذِي مَسْغَبَةٍ

Or feeding hungry people in the days of famine,

Aw itAAamun fee yawmin thee masghabatin

يَتِيمًا ذَا مَقْرَبَةٍ

An orphan near of kin,

Yateeman tha maqrabatin

أَوْ مِسْكِينًا ذَا مَتْرَبَةٍ

Or a needy man living in misery,

Aw miskeenan tha matrabatin

ثُمَّ كَانَ مِنَ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالصَّبْرِ وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالْمَرْحَمَةِ

Then he (who used to boast) is of those who adhere to Islamic monotheism, exhort one another to patience and exhort one another to compassion.

Thumma kana mina allatheena amanoo watawasaw bialssabri watawasaw bialmarhamati

أُولَٰئِكَ أَصْحَابُ الْمَيْمَنَةِ

Those are the ‘companions of the right side’

Ola-ika as-habu almaymanati

وَالَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا بِآيَاتِنَا هُمْ أَصْحَابُ الْمَشْأَمَةِ

But those who refuse to admit the truth of Our Revelations are the ‘companions of the left side’.

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

عَلَيْهِمْ نَارٌ مُّؤْصَدَةٌ

Upon them will be Fire closed over.

AAalayhim narun mu/sadatun

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