لَاۤ

اُقْسِمُ

بِهٰذَا

الْبَلَدِ

۟ۙ

I swear by this city,

-and (O Prophet,) you are going to be allowed (to fight) in this city-

and by the father and all those he begot,

indeed We have created man (to live) in hard struggle.

Does he think that no one has power over him?

He says, “I have spent a lot of wealth.”

Does he think that no one has seen him?

Did We not make for him two eyes,

and one tongue and two lips,

and showed him the two ways?

Yet he did not make his way through the steep course,- -

- And what may let you know what the steep course is?

(It is) freeing of the neck of a slave,

or giving food in a day of hunger

to an orphan near of kin,

or to a needy person lying in dust- -

- then he did not join those who believe and advise each other to be patient and advise each other to be merciful.

Those are the People of the Right Hand. (i.e. their books of deeds will be given in their right hands)

As for those who reject Our verses, they are the People of the Left Hand. (i.e. their books of deeds will be given in their left hands.)

Upon them will be the Fire, enveloping them with closed exits.