Surah “The City, This Countryside”

No! I swear by this country, - (Or: city

And you (i.e., the Prophet) are an inhabitant of this country

And (I swear) (by) the begetter and what he begot

Indeed We already created man in suffering

Does he reckon that no one can ever determine over him

He says, "I have consumed stacked wealth."

Does he reckon that none has seen him

Have We not made for him two eyes

And a tongue, and two lips

And guided him on the two highways (of good and evil)

Yet he has not rushed along the uneven (Or: steep) track

And what makes you realize what the uneven track is

It is the freeing of a slave, (Literally: the untying of a neck

Or feeding upon a day of famine

An orphan of (Literally: owning) near relationship

Or an indigent man in starvation; (Literally: in dusty circumstances

Thereafter he is one of the ones who believed, and enjoined one another to have patience, and enjoined one another to do merciful deeds

Those are the companions of the position of Rightness

And the ones who disbelieve in Our signs, they are the companions of the position of sinister (befalling); (Or: the Hand

Over them is a Fire without any outlet (Literally: vaulted/over)