Al-Balad (, "The City") is the 90th Surah or chapter of the Qur'an. It is composed of 20 ayat (verses).

Summary

• 1-7 Man, though created in misery, yet boasts of his riches

• 8-16 Captives to be freed and the poor and orphan to be fed

• 17-20 Description of the companions of the right and left hand

Sayyid Qutb (d. 1966), who was an Egyptian author, Islamist, and leading intellectual of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, summarised the overall theme of Surat Al-Lail in the introduction to his extensive Quranic commentary, Fi Zilal al-Qur'an (In the shades of the Qur'an) by saying:

References

External links

• Quran 90, 2020 Mustafa Khattab translation