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| 68.1 | Noon. I swear by the pen and what the angels write, |
| 68.2 | By the grace of your Lord you are not mad. |
| 68.3 | And most surely you shall have a reward never to be cut off. |
| 68.4 | And most surely you conform (yourself) to sublime morality. |
| 68.5 | So you shall see, and they (too) shall see, |
| 68.6 | Which of you is afflicted with madness. |
| 68.7 | Surely your Lord best knows him who errs from His way, and He best knows the followers of the right course. |
| 68.8 | So do not yield to the rejecters. |
| 68.9 | They wish that you should be pliant so they (too) would be pliant. |
| 68.10 | And yield not to any mean swearer |
| 68.11 | Defamer, going about with slander |
| 68.12 | Forbidder of good, outstepping the limits, sinful, |
| 68.13 | Ignoble, besides all that, base-born; |
| 68.14 | Because he possesses wealth and sons. |
| 68.15 | When Our communications are recited to him, he says: Stories of those of yore. |
| 68.16 | We will brand him on the nose. |
| 68.17 | Surely We will try them as We tried the owners of the garden, when they swore that they would certainly cut off the produce in the morning, |
| 68.18 | And were not willing to set aside a portion (for the poor). |
| 68.19 | Then there encompassed it a visitation from your Lord while they were sleeping. |
| 68.20 | So it became as black, barren land. |
| 68.21 | And they called out to each other in the morning, |
| 68.22 | Saying: Go early to your tilth if you would cut (the produce). |
| 68.23 | So they went, while they consulted together secretly, |
| 68.24 | Saying: No poor man shall enter it today upon you. |
| 68.25 | And in the morning they went, having the power to prevent. |
| 68.26 | But when they saw it, they said: Most surely we have gone astray |
| 68.27 | Nay! we are made to suffer privation. |
| 68.28 | The best of them said: Did I not say to you, Why do you not glorify (Allah)? |
| 68.29 | They said: Glory be to our Lord, surely we were unjust. |
| 68.30 | Then some of them advanced against others, blaming each other. |
| 68.31 | Said they: O woe to us! surely we were inordinate: |
| 68.32 | Maybe, our Lord will give us instead one better than it; surely to our Lord do we make our humble petition. |
| 68.33 | Such is the chastisement, and certainly the chastisement of the hereafter is greater, did they but know! |
| 68.34 | Surely those who guard (against evil) shall have with their Lord gardens of bliss. |
| 68.35 | What! shall We then make (i.e. treat) those who submit as the guilty? |
| 68.36 | What has happened to you? How do you judge? |
| 68.37 | Or have you a book wherein you read, |
| 68.38 | That you have surely therein what you choose? |
| 68.39 | Or have you received from Us an agreement confirmed by an oath extending to the day of resurrection that you shall surely have what you demand? |
| 68.40 | Ask them which of them will vouch for that, |
| 68.41 | Or have.they associates if they are truthful. |
| 68.42 | On the day when there shall be a severe affliction, and they shall be called upon to make obeisance, but they shall not be able, |
| 68.43 | Their looks cast down, abasement shall overtake them; and they were called upon to make obeisance indeed while yet they were safe. |
| 68.44 | So leave Me and him who rejects this announcement; We will overtake them by degrees, from whence they perceive not: |
| 68.45 | And I do bear with them, surely My plan is firm. |
| 68.46 | Or do you ask from them a reward, so that they are burdened with debt? |
| 68.47 | Or have they (the knowledge of) the unseen, so that they write (it) down? |
| 68.48 | So wait patiently for the judgment of your Lord, and be not like the companion of the fish, when he cried while he was in distress. |
| 68.49 | Were it not that favor from his Lord had overtaken him, he would certainly have been cast down upon the naked Found while he was blamed. |
| 68.50 | Then his Lord chose him, and He made him of the good. |
| 68.51 | And those who disbelieve would almost smite you with their eyes when they hear the reminder, and they say: Most surely he is mad. |
| 68.52 | And it is naught but a reminder to the nations. |
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