The City, This Countryside — Sayyid Qutb Transcription In Progress Translation – Parallel Quran

1 The City

لَا أُقْسِمُ بِهَٰذَا الْبَلَدِ

Sayyid Qutb (transcription in progress)

I swear by this city,

La oqsimu bihatha albaladi

وَأَنتَ حِلٌّ بِهَٰذَا الْبَلَدِ

Sayyid Qutb (transcription in progress)

this city in which you are a dweller,

Waanta hillun bihatha albaladi

وَوَالِدٍ وَمَا وَلَدَ

Sayyid Qutb (transcription in progress)

by parent and offspring:

Wawalidin wama walada

لَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا الْإِنسَانَ فِي كَبَدٍ

Sayyid Qutb (transcription in progress)

indeed, We have created man in affliction.

Laqad khalaqna al-insana fee kabadin

أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّن يَقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ أَحَدٌ

Sayyid Qutb (transcription in progress)

Does he think that no one has power over him?

Ayahsabu an lan yaqdira AAalayhi ahadun

يَقُولُ أَهْلَكْتُ مَالًا لُّبَدًا

Sayyid Qutb (transcription in progress)

He says: 'I have spent abundant wealth.'

Yaqoolu ahlaktu malan lubadan

أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّمْ يَرَهُ أَحَدٌ

Sayyid Qutb (transcription in progress)

Does he think that none observes him?

Ayahsabu an lam yarahu ahadun

أَلَمْ نَجْعَل لَّهُ عَيْنَيْنِ

Sayyid Qutb (transcription in progress)

Have We not given him two eyes,

Alam najAAal lahu AAaynayni

وَلِسَانًا وَشَفَتَيْنِ

Sayyid Qutb (transcription in progress)

a tongue, and two lips,

Walisanan washafatayni

وَهَدَيْنَاهُ النَّجْدَيْنِ

Sayyid Qutb (transcription in progress)

and shown him the two paths?

Wahadaynahu alnnajdayni

فَلَا اقْتَحَمَ الْعَقَبَةَ

Sayyid Qutb (transcription in progress)

Yet he would not scale the Ascent.

Fala iqtahama alAAaqabata

وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا الْعَقَبَةُ

Sayyid Qutb (transcription in progress)

Would that you knew what the Ascent is.

Wama adraka ma alAAaqabatu

فَكُّ رَقَبَةٍ

Sayyid Qutb (transcription in progress)

It is the freeing of a slave,

Fakku raqabatin

أَوْ إِطْعَامٌ فِي يَوْمٍ ذِي مَسْغَبَةٍ

Sayyid Qutb (transcription in progress)

or the feeding, on a day of famine,

Aw itAAamun fee yawmin thee masghabatin

يَتِيمًا ذَا مَقْرَبَةٍ

Sayyid Qutb (transcription in progress)

of an orphaned near of kin,

Yateeman tha maqrabatin

أَوْ مِسْكِينًا ذَا مَتْرَبَةٍ

Sayyid Qutb (transcription in progress)

or a needy man in distress,

Aw miskeenan tha matrabatin

ثُمَّ كَانَ مِنَ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالصَّبْرِ وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالْمَرْحَمَةِ

Sayyid Qutb (transcription in progress)

and to be of those who believe and enjoin on one another to be patient in adversity, and enjoin mercy on one another.

Thumma kana mina allatheena amanoo watawasaw bialssabri watawasaw bialmarhamati

أُولَٰئِكَ أَصْحَابُ الْمَيْمَنَةِ

Sayyid Qutb (transcription in progress)

Those who do this shall be on the right hand.

Ola-ika as-habu almaymanati

وَالَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا بِآيَاتِنَا هُمْ أَصْحَابُ الْمَشْأَمَةِ

Sayyid Qutb (transcription in progress)

And those who deny Our revelations shall bon the left hand,

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

عَلَيْهِمْ نَارٌ مُّؤْصَدَةٌ

Sayyid Qutb (transcription in progress)

with fire closing in upon them.

AAalayhim narun mu/sadatun

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