Surah “The City, This Countryside”

as rendered by The Wise Quran Project — 20 verses

I swear by this land.
And you are free in this land.
By a begetter and what he begot.
Surely, certainly We created man in trouble.
Does he think that no one will have power over him?
He says, 'I have destroyed much wealth.'
Does he think that no one sees him?
Did We not make for him two eyes,
And a tongue, and two lips?
And We guided him to the two ways.
But then he rushed not to the mountain road.
And what will make you know what the mountain road is?
Freeing a neck
Or feeding in a day, a possessor of famine,
An orphan near of kin
Or a poor person, a possessor of poverty.
Then he was of those who believed and instructed one another with patience and instructed one another with mercy.
Those are the fellows of the right.
And those who disbelieved in Our signs, they are the fellows of the left;
Upon them is shut fire.