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Surah 90

Al-Balad

The City

البلد

Editorial study · not independently reviewed.

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Name and conventional translation

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Arabic name

البلد

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Transliteration

Al-Balad

Source fact

English name

The City

Source fact as Tanzil metadata gives it; Tanzil names no translator for it

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Verse count and position

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Verses

20

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Words

82

Derived link whitespace-separated tokens of the Uthmani text, the rule the morphology layer uses

Position in the mushaf order

90 of 114

Source fact

Position in a revelation ordering

35 of 114

Revelation order as encoded by the Tanzil metadata · Tanzil publishes an "order" value for each surah and documents the field only as "revelation order". It does not name which ordering it encodes, cite a scholar, or reference an edition. We have therefore not established whose ordering this is, and we do not name one. The major orderings disagree about dozens of surahs, so naming the likeliest candidate would be a guess presented as a citation.

Source fact

Place of revelation, as Tanzil classifies it

Meccan

Source fact Tanzil's classification, carried without a named authority

Juzʾ

Within juzʾ 30

Source fact juzʾ start verses from the banked Tanzil metadata file, digest-checked against its source record

Opening formula (basmala) in this edition

stands before verse 1 and is not numbered

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What the surah says of itself

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Major movements and sections

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Rukūʿ divisions

RukūʿVersesOpens
190:1-20لَآ أُقْسِمُ بِهَٰذَا ٱلْبَلَدِ

Source fact rukūʿ start verses from the banked Tanzil metadata file, digest-checked against its source record; each runs to the verse before the next; opening words are the first 4 words of its first verse

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Repeated words and themes

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Verses repeated word for word

No verse of this surah repeats another word for word.

Derived link verses of this surah whose Uthmani text is byte-identical to another verse of it

Phrases repeated word for word

No phrase qualifies under the rule below.

Derived link runs of at least 3 consecutive words, inside one verse, occurring at least 3 times in this surah, kept only where no longer run has the same occurrences; a run that is only ever a whole repeated verse is listed above instead

Roots carried by the most words

82 words34 with one root, counted4 conflicting roots12 no root recorded32 not analysed

RootWords, at leastVersesForms in this surah
ح.س.ب22أَيَحْسَبُ
ذ.و.ي22ذَا
ص.ح.ب22أَصْحَٰبُ
و.ح.د22أَحَدٌ
و.ل.د21وَلَدَ وَوَالِدٍ

Derived link a word counts toward a root only where every analysis Camel Morph kept for it names that one root and no analysis records none; words with no analysis, no root or conflicting roots are not counted anywhere. Roots on at least 2 words.

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Words the analyser did not read

32 of this surah's 82 words have no analysis, and a further 16 have no single root, so the root counts are minimums. Camel Morph MSA is a Modern Standard Arabic analyser meeting Qur'anic Arabic.

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People and events named

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Common claims the text does not itself establish

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Links to related topical studies

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Current studies citing a verse of this surah

2 current studies

Justice & governance1

Resurrection, judgment, paradise & hell1

Derived link every study whose current signature cites at least one verse of this surah, grouped by its /studies theme (largest first, ties by name, no theme last) and ordered by first verse cited. A citation is not a statement that the study is about this surah.

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Source and review status

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Sources this page draws on

SourceLicenceAttribution notice
Tanzil Qur'an text (Uthmani)
Uthmani, Version 1.1 · cleared		Creative Commons Attribution 3.0Qur'anic text from the Tanzil Project. Copyright (C) 2007-2026 Tanzil Project License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Source: tanzil.net · Updates: tanzil.net/updates/ https://tanzil.net/updates/
Tanzil Qur'an metadata
quran-data.xml v1.0 · cleared		Creative Commons Attribution — version not specified by the sourceSurah metadata from Tanzil Qur'an metadata (quran-data.xml, version 1.0), Tanzil Project, tanzil.net. (C) 2008-2009 Tanzil.info. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution; the source does not state a version. Values are reproduced unchanged; this site selects and arranges them, and derives verse ranges from the division start points. https://tanzil.net/res/text/metadata/quran-data.xml
Camel Morph MSA
v1.0, LREC-COLING 2024 release · cleared		Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 InternationalMorphological analyses from Camel Morph MSA (LREC-COLING 2024 release) by Christian Khairallah, Salam Khalifa, Reham Marzouk, Mayar Mohamadein Nassar and Nizar Habash, CAMeL Lab, New York University Abu Dhabi (Khairallah et al., 2024), https://github.com/CAMeL-Lab/camel_morph. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Modified: this site runs the analyser over its Qur'anic text, keeps only analyses whose vocalisation matches the text, removes duplicates and counts the result. https://github.com/CAMeL-Lab/camel_morph

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Verse restatements signed for this surah

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Signed introduction to this surah

Twenty verses sworn by the city, and by a father and what he begot, and then the claim that man was created in hardship. The steep path is named and then explained, because the reader will not have guessed it: freeing a slave, or feeding on a day of hunger an orphan near of kin or a poor person in the dust.

AALAMIN Editor · signed 2026-08-29 · Editorial

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