90:1 لَآ أُقْسِمُ بِهَـٰذَا ٱلْبَلَدِ — I swear by this city [i.e., Makkah] 90:2 وَأَنتَ حِلٌّۢ بِهَـٰذَا ٱلْبَلَدِ — And you, [O Muḥammad], are free of restriction in this city — And [by] the father 1 and that which was born [of him], 90:4 لَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَـٰنَ فِى كَبَدٍ — We have certainly created man into hardship. 90:5 أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّن يَقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ أَحَدٌ — Does he think that never will anyone overcome him?
90:6 يَقُولُ أَهْلَكْتُ مَالًا 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? 90:10 وَهَدَيْنَـٰهُ ٱلنَّجْدَيْنِ — And have shown him the two ways? 1 90:11 فَلَا ٱقْتَحَمَ ٱلْعَقَبَةَ — But he has not broken through the difficult pass.
1 90:12 وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْعَقَبَةُ — And what can make you know what is [breaking through] the difficult pass? 90:14 أَوْ إِطْعَـٰمٌ فِى يَوْمٍ ذِى مَسْغَبَةٍ — Or feeding on a day of severe hunger — An orphan of near relationship 90:16 أَوْ مِسْكِينًا ذَا مَتْرَبَةٍ 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 أُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ أَصْحَـٰبُ ٱلْمَيْمَنَةِ — Those are the companions of the right. 1 90:19 وَٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ بِـَٔايَـٰتِنَا هُمْ أَصْحَـٰبُ ٱلْمَشْـَٔمَةِ — But they who disbelieved in Our signs - those are the companions of the left. 1 90:20 عَلَيْهِمْ نَارٌ مُّؤْصَدَةٌۢ — Over them will be fire closed in. 1