Al-Balad Verse 16

or to a poor person in distress,

or to a needy person in misery,

or a needy man in misery;

or a poor person in distress,

Or a poor man cleaving to the dust.

Or to the indigent (down) in the dust.

or to a destitute lying in dust;

Or the poor in distress;

Or of a homeless needy person!

or a needy man in desolation,

Or a poor wretch in misery;

Or a downtrodden poor man.

Or a poorest of poor/poor oppressed of poverty.

Or of a homeless needy person!

Or a destitute lying in the dust (of misery);

Or to a Miskin (poor) afflicted with misery.

Then he is of those who believe and exhort one another to patience, and exhort one another to mercy.

Or to the poor man lying in the dust.

Or some poor wretch in misery,

and downtrodden destitute person, (so that he would be of)

or to a needy person in distress;

Or to a Miskin cleaving to dust.

or some needy person in distress,

Or a destitute in the dust.

or a needy person in misery (matraba; [literally means] `clinging to the dust [turb]' 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, it`mun, `to give food', in which case there is an implied iqtihmu before al-`aqaba, of which the said reading becomes the explication);

Or to a Miskin cleaving to dust (Dha Matrabah).

meaning, poor, miserable, and clinging to the dirt.

It means those who are in a state of destitution.

Ibn `Abbas said,

"Dha Matrabah is that who is dejected in the street and who has no house or anything else to protect him against the dirt."

Allah said