The City, This Countryside — Safi Kaskas Translation – Parallel Quran

1 The City

لَا أُقْسِمُ بِهَٰذَا الْبَلَدِ

I swear by this town,

La oqsimu bihatha albaladi

وَأَنتَ حِلٌّ بِهَٰذَا الْبَلَدِ

and you [Prophet] are free to dwell in this town,

Waanta hillun bihatha albaladi

وَوَالِدٍ وَمَا وَلَدَ

And [I swear by] a father and his offspring,

Wawalidin wama walada

لَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا الْإِنسَانَ فِي كَبَدٍ

We have created human being for a life of hardship.

Laqad khalaqna al-insana fee kabadin

أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّن يَقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ أَحَدٌ

Does he thinks that no one will have power over him?

Ayahsabu an lan yaqdira AAalayhi ahadun

يَقُولُ أَهْلَكْتُ مَالًا لُّبَدًا

"I have wasted much money," he says,

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 given him two eyes?

Alam najAAal lahu AAaynayni

وَلِسَانًا وَشَفَتَيْنِ

And a tongue and two lips

Walisanan washafatayni

وَهَدَيْنَاهُ النَّجْدَيْنِ

and have shown him the two ways [of good and evil]?

Wahadaynahu alnnajdayni

فَلَا اقْتَحَمَ الْعَقَبَةَ

But he did not take the difficult path.

Fala iqtahama alAAaqabata

وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا الْعَقَبَةُ

And how would you know what is the difficult path?

Wama adraka ma alAAaqabatu

فَكُّ رَقَبَةٍ

It is to free a slave,

Fakku raqabatin

أَوْ إِطْعَامٌ فِي يَوْمٍ ذِي مَسْغَبَةٍ

or to feed 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 needy person in distress.

Aw miskeenan tha matrabatin

ثُمَّ كَانَ مِنَ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالصَّبْرِ وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالْمَرْحَمَةِ

Then to become one of those who believe and urge one another to endure and to urge each other to be compassionate.

Thumma kana mina allatheena amanoo watawasaw bialssabri watawasaw bialmarhamati

أُولَٰئِكَ أَصْحَابُ الْمَيْمَنَةِ

Those are the people of righteousness.

Ola-ika as-habu almaymanati

وَالَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا بِآيَاتِنَا هُمْ أَصْحَابُ الْمَشْأَمَةِ

But those who defy Our revelations are the people of despair.

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

عَلَيْهِمْ نَارٌ مُّؤْصَدَةٌ

With the fire closing in above them.

AAalayhim narun mu/sadatun

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