• Tafseer Surah Balad, Part 1: Life is Toil

    This is post #33 in our series on Tafseer of Juz ‘Amma (click the link to see all posts in this series). This is the first of two posts on the tafseer of Surah Balad. Allah says: لَا أُقْسِمُ بِهَذَا الْبَلَدِ Translation: I swear by this city (Makkah) … [Surah Balad, verse 1] “Laa uqsim” literally means, “I will not swear by.” in Arabic language, it means “this thing is so truthful, I almost don’t even have to swear by it.