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The Country -Al-Balad |
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In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful |
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[ 90. 1 ] No, I swear by this country ( Mecca ), |
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[ 90. 2 ] and you are a lodger in this country. |
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[ 90. 3 ] And by the giver of birth, and whom he fathered, |
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[ 90. 4 ] We created the human in fatigue. |
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[ 90. 5 ] Does he think that none has power over him! |
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[ 90. 6 ] He will say: 'I have destroyed a vast wealth.' |
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[ 90. 7 ] Does he think that none has observed him? |
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[ 90. 8 ] Have We not given him two eyes, |
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[ 90. 9 ] a tongue, and two lips, |
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[ 90. 10 ] and guided him on the two paths ( of good and evil )? |
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[ 90. 11 ] Yet he has not scaled the height. |
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[ 90. 12 ] What could let you know what the height is! |
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[ 90. 13 ] ( It is ) the freeing of a slave, |
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[ 90. 14 ] the giving of food upon the day of hunger |
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[ 90. 15 ] to an orphaned relative |
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[ 90. 16 ] or to a needy person in distress; |
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[ 90. 17 ] so that he becomes one of those who believe, charge each other to be patient, and charge each other to be merciful. |
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[ 90. 18 ] Those are the Companions of the Right. |
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[ 90. 19 ] But those who disbelieve in Our verses, they are the Companions of the Left, |
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[ 90. 20 ] with the Fire closed above them. |