بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

• 90:1

  لَآ أُقْسِمُ بِهَٰذَا ٱلْبَلَدِ

  I swear by this city, Makkah -

• 90:2

  وَأَنتَ حِلٌّۢ بِهَٰذَا ٱلْبَلَدِ

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

• 90:3

  وَوَالِدٍۢ وَمَا وَلَدَ

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

• 90:4

  لَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ فِى كَبَدٍ

  We have certainly created man into hardship.

• 90:5

  أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّن يَقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ أَحَدٌۭ

  Does he think that never will anyone overcome him?

• 90:6

  يَقُولُ أَهْلَكْتُ مَالًۭا لُّبَدًا

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

• 90:7

  أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّمْ يَرَهُۥٓ أَحَدٌ

  Does he think that no one has seen him?

• 90:8

  أَلَمْ نَجْعَل لَّهُۥ عَيْنَيْنِ

  Have We not made for him two eyes?

• 90:9

  وَلِسَانًۭا وَشَفَتَيْنِ

  And a tongue and two lips?

• 90:10

  وَهَدَيْنَٰهُ ٱلنَّجْدَيْنِ

  And have shown him the two ways?

• 90:11

  فَلَا ٱقْتَحَمَ ٱلْعَقَبَةَ

  But he has not broken through the difficult pass.

• 90:12

  وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْعَقَبَةُ

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

• 90:13

  فَكُّ رَقَبَةٍ

  It is the freeing of a slave

• 90:14

  أَوْ إِطْعَٰمٌۭ فِى يَوْمٍۢ ذِى مَسْغَبَةٍۢ

  Or feeding on a day of severe hunger

• 90:15

  يَتِيمًۭا ذَا مَقْرَبَةٍ

  An orphan of near relationship

• 90:16

  أَوْ مِسْكِينًۭا ذَا مَتْرَبَةٍۢ

  Or a needy person in misery

• 90:17

  ثُمَّ كَانَ مِنَ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَتَوَاصَوْا۟ بِٱلصَّبْرِ وَتَوَاصَوْا۟ بِٱلْمَرْحَمَةِ

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

• 90:18

  أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ أَصْحَٰبُ ٱلْمَيْمَنَةِ

  Those are the companions of the right.

• 90:19

  وَٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا هُمْ أَصْحَٰبُ ٱلْمَشْـَٔمَةِ

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

• 90:20

  عَلَيْهِمْ نَارٌۭ مُّؤْصَدَةٌۢ

  Over them will be fire closed in.