Him),

089.029
Y: "Enter thou, then, among My devotees!"

P: Enter thou among My bondmen!

S: So enter among My servants,

089.030
Y: "Yea, enter thou My Heaven!"

P: Enter thou My Garden!

S: And enter into My garden.

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Chapter 90:

AL-BALAD (THE CITY, THIS COUNTRYSIDE)
Total Verses: 20 Revealed At: MAKKA

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In the name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.

090.001
Y: I do call to witness this City;-

P: Nay, I swear by this city -

S: Nay! I swear by this city.

090.002
Y: And thou art a freeman of this City;-

P: And thou art an indweller of this city -

S: And you shall be made free from obligation in this city--

090.003
Y: And (the mystic ties of) parent and child;-

P: And the begetter and that which he begat,

S: And the begetter and whom he begot.

090.004
Y: Verily We have created man into toil and struggle.

P: We verily have created man in an atmosphere:

S: Certainly We have created man to be in distress.

090.005
Y: Thinketh he, that none hath power over him?

P: Thinketh he that none hath power over him?

S: Does he think that no one has power over him?

090.006
Y: He may say (boastfully); Wealth have I squandered in abundance!

P: And he saith: I have destroyed vast wealth:

S: He shall say: I have wasted much wealth.

090.007
Y: Thinketh he that none beholdeth him?

P: Thinketh he that none beholdeth him?

S: Does he think that no one sees him?

090.008
Y: Have We not made for him a pair of eyes?-

P: Did We not assign unto him two eyes

S: Have We not given him two eyes,

090.009
Y: And a tongue, and a pair of lips?-

P: And a tongue and two lips,

S: And a tongue and two lips,

090.010
Y: And shown him the two highways?

P: And guide him to the parting of the mountain ways?

S: And pointed out to him the two conspicuous ways?

090.011
Y: But he hath made no haste on the path that is steep.

P: But he hath not attempted the Ascent -

S: But he would not attempt the uphill road,

090.012
Y: And what will explain to thee the path that is steep?-

P: Ah, what will convey unto thee what the Ascent is! -

S: And what will make you comprehend what the uphill road is?

090.013
Y: (It is:) freeing the bondman;

P: (It is) to free a slave,

S: (It is)