Al-Balad

For the Lebanese newspaper, see Al-Balad (newspaper). For the old village of Beit Hanina (East Jerusalem), see Beit Hanina.
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سورة البلد
Sūrat al-Balad
The City

Arabic text · English translation

Classification Meccan
Other names (Eng.) The Countryside, The Land
Position Juz' 30
Structure 20 verses

Sūrat al-Balad (Arabic: البلد‎ al-balad, "The City, This Country") is the 90th sura of the Qur'an with 20 ayat. The surah that opens with the emphatic oath of the Divine One swearing by the City.[1] The addressed issues in this surah are said to be compressed beautifully into precise compact words.[2] The surah gives exclusive[3] permission[4] to Muhammad to fight in the sacred city of Mecca due to excessive tyranny against him by the disbelievers.[5] Then the Surah highlights the submissive trait of human nature that Man, though created in misery, yet boasts of his riches.[6] Eventually surah closes with the description of the companions of the right and left hand i.e the good and the bad people and the punishment of the bad ones.

References

  1. ↑ http://al-quran.info/#90:1
  2. ↑ Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi was a widely read and very influential, a 20th-century Islamist political philosopher, journalist, Islamic scholar, Muslim revivalist leader (1903–1979), in his tafsir Tafhim al-Qur'an Lahore: Islamic Publications, Ltd. (1981)
  3. ↑ Sahih Muslim 1354 In-book reference: Book 15, Hadith 508 USC-MSA web (English) reference  : Book 7, Hadith 3141
  4. ↑ Tafsir Ibn Kathir
  5. ↑ Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik (translator), Al-Qur'an, the Guidance for Mankind - English with Arabic Text
  6. ↑ Mohammed, The Quran, vol. 4 [1896] Editor: Rev. Elwood Morris Wherry Translator: George Sale CHAPTER XC.: ENTITLED SURAT AL BALAD (THE TERRITORY)

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