COMMENTARY on 90:1
A. Yusuf Ali:

Translation:
I do call to witness 6130 this City;-
Commentary:

6130  The appeal to the mystic ties between the Prophet and his parent city of Makkah has been explained in the Introduction to this Surah. It is a symbol of man's own history. Man is born for toil and struggle, and this is the substantive proposition in verse 4 below, which this appeal leads up to.