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Qur’an 90:4 Al-Balad, verse 4

لَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ فِى كَبَدٍ

We have certainly created man into hardship.

Translation: Saheeh International. Brackets mark words added for clarity.

Surah
Al-Balad (90)
Verse
4 of 20
Revealed
Makki
Juz
30
Mushaf page
594

Word by word

ArabicTransliterationMeaningRoot
لَقَدْlaqadCertainly
خَلَقْنَاkhalaqnāWe have createdخ ل ق
ٱلْإِنسَـٰنَl-insānamanأ ن س
فِىfī(to be) in
كَبَدٍkabadinhardshipك ب د

Tap a root to see every word built from it. Root and lemma data: Quranic Arabic Corpus (Kais Dukes, University of Leeds), revised by quran-morphology, GNU GPL. All sources.

In context

The verses around 90:4 in Al-Balad.

  • 90:2وَأَنتَ حِلٌّۢ بِهَٰذَا ٱلْبَلَدِAnd you, [O Muhammad], are free of restriction in this city -
  • 90:3وَوَالِدٍۢ وَمَا وَلَدَAnd [by] the father and that which was born [of him],
  • 90:5أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّن يَقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ أَحَدٌۭDoes he think that never will anyone overcome him?
  • 90:6يَقُولُ أَهْلَكْتُ مَالًۭا لُّبَدًاHe says, "I have spent wealth in abundance."

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