I swear by this city [i.e., Makkah]

La oqsimu bihatha albalad

And you, [O Muḥammad], are free of restriction in this city

Waanta hillun bihatha albalad

And [by] the father and that which was born [of him],

Wawalidin wama walad

We have certainly created man into hardship.

Laqad khalaqna al-insana feekabad

Does he think that never will anyone overcome him?

Ayahsabu an lan yaqdira AAalayhi ahad

He says, "I have spent wealth in abundance."

Yaqoolu ahlaktu malan lubada

Does he think that no one has seen him?

Ayahsabu an lam yarahu ahad

Have We not made for him two eyes?

Alam najAAal lahu AAaynayn

And a tongue and two lips?

Walisanan washafatayn

And have shown him the two ways?

Wahadaynahu annajdayn

But he has not broken through the difficult pass.

Fala iqtahama alAAaqaba

And what can make you know what is [breaking through] the difficult pass?

Wama adraka maalAAaqaba

It is the freeing of a slave

Fakku raqaba

Or feeding on a day of severe hunger

Aw itAAamun fee yawmin theemasghaba

An orphan of near relationship

Yateeman tha maqraba

Or a needy person in misery

Aw miskeenan tha matraba

And then being among those who believed and advised one another to patience and advised one another to compassion.

Thumma kana mina allatheena amanoowatawasaw bissabri watawasaw bilmarhama

Those are the companions of the right.

Ola-ika as-habualmaymana

But they who disbelieved in Our signs - those are the companions of the left.

Wallatheena kafaroo bi-ayatinahum as-habu almash-ama

Over them will be fire closed in.

AAalayhim narun mu/sada