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لَآ أُقْسِمُ بِهَـٰذَا ٱلْبَلَدِ ١
I swear by this city [i.e., Makkah]
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وَأَنتَ حِلٌّۢ بِهَـٰذَا ٱلْبَلَدِ ٢
And you, [O Muḥammad], are free of restriction in this city
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وَوَالِدٍ وَمَا وَلَدَ ٣
And [by] the father and that which was born [of him],
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لَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَـٰنَ فِى كَبَدٍ ٤
We have certainly created man into hardship.
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أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّن يَقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ أَحَدٌ ٥
Does he think that never will anyone overcome him?
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يَقُولُ أَهْلَكْتُ مَالًا لُّبَدًا ٦
He says, "I have spent wealth in abundance."
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أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّمْ يَرَهُۥٓ أَحَدٌ ٧
Does he think that no one has seen him?
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أَلَمْ نَجْعَل لَّهُۥ عَيْنَيْنِ ٨
Have We not made for him two eyes?
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وَلِسَانًا وَشَفَتَيْنِ ٩
And a tongue and two lips?
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وَهَدَيْنَـٰهُ ٱلنَّجْدَيْنِ ١٠
And have shown him the two ways?
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فَلَا ٱقْتَحَمَ ٱلْعَقَبَةَ ١١
But he has not broken through the difficult pass.
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وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْعَقَبَةُ ١٢
And what can make you know what is [breaking through] the difficult pass?
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فَكُّ رَقَبَةٍ ١٣
It is the freeing of a slave
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أَوْ إِطْعَـٰمٌ فِى يَوْمٍ ذِى مَسْغَبَةٍ ١٤
Or feeding on a day of severe hunger
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يَتِيمًا ذَا مَقْرَبَةٍ ١٥
An orphan of near relationship
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أَوْ مِسْكِينًا ذَا مَتْرَبَةٍ ١٦
Or a needy person in misery
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ثُمَّ كَانَ مِنَ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَتَوَاصَوْا۟ بِٱلصَّبْرِ وَتَوَاصَوْا۟ بِٱلْمَرْحَمَةِ ١٧
And then being among those who believed and advised one another to patience and advised one another to compassion.
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أُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ أَصْحَـٰبُ ٱلْمَيْمَنَةِ ١٨
Those are the companions of the right.
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وَٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ بِـَٔايَـٰتِنَا هُمْ أَصْحَـٰبُ ٱلْمَشْـَٔمَةِ ١٩
But they who disbelieved in Our signs - those are the companions of the left.
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عَلَيْهِمْ نَارٌ مُّؤْصَدَةٌۢ ٢٠
Over them will be fire closed in.