Surah Al-Balad 90:16

The City · Verse 16 of 20 · Juz 30 · Page 594

أَوْ مِسْكِينًا ذَا مَتْرَبَةٍ

Or a needy person in misery

Translation: Saheeh International

Tafsir

or a needy person in misery matraba literally means ‘clinging to the dust turāb’ because of his poverty; a variant reading has two verbal nouns in place of the two verbs fakka ‘he freed’ and at‘ama ‘he fed’ the first being in a genitive construction fakku raqabatin ‘the freeing of a slave’ and the second with nunation …

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