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| 1. * | Nun. By the Pen, and what they inscribe, |
| 2. * | thou art not, by the blessing of thy Lord, a man possessed. |
| 3. * | Surely thou shalt have a wage unfailing; |
| 4. * | surely thou art upon a mighty morality. |
| 5. * | So thou shalt see, and they will see, |
| 6. * | which of you is the demented. |
| 7. * | Surely thy Lord knows very well those who have gone astray from His way, and He knows very well those who are guided. |
| 8. * | So obey thou not those who cry lies. |
| 9. * | They wish that thou shouldst compromise, then they would compromise. |
| 10. * | And obey thou not every mean swearer, |
| 11. * | backbiter, going about with slander, |
| 12. * | hinderer of good, guilty aggressor, coarse-grained, |
| 13. * | moreover ignoble, |
| 14. * | because he has wealth and sons. |
| 15. * | When Our signs are recited to him, he says, 'Fairy-tales of the ancients!' |
| 16. * | We shall brand him upon the muzzle! |
| 17. * | Now We have tried them, even as We tried the owners of the garden when they swore they would pluck in the morning |
| 18. * | and they added not the saving words. |
| 19. * | Then a visitation from thy Lord visited it, while they were sleeping, |
| 20. * | and in the morning it was as if it were a garden plucked. |
| 21. * | In the morning they called to one another, |
| 22. * | 'Come forth betimes upon your tillage, if you would pluck!' |
| 23. * | So they departed, whispering together, |
| 24. * | 'No needy man shall enter it today against your will.' |
| 25. * | And they went forth early, determined upon their purpose. |
| 26. * | But when they saw it, they said, 'Surely we are gone astray; |
| 27. * | nay, rather we have been robbed!' |
| 28. * | Said the most moderate of them, 'Did I not say to you, "Why do you not give glory?"' |
| 29. * | They said, 'Glory be to God, our Lord; truly, we were evildoers.' |
| 30. * | And they advanced one upon another, blaming each other. |
| 31. * | They said, 'Woe, alas for us! Truly, we were insolent. |
| 32. * | It may be that our Lord will give us in exchange a better than it; to our Lord we humbly turn.' |
| 33. * | Such is the chastisement; and the chastisement of the world to come, is assuredly greater, did they but know. |
| 34. * | Surely for the godfearing shall be Gardens of Bliss with their Lord. |
| 35. * | What, shall we make those who have surrendered like to the sinners? |
| 36. * | What ails you then, how you judge? |
| 37. * | Or have you a Book wherein you study? |
| 38. * | Surely therein you shall have whatever you choose! |
| 39. * | Or have you oaths from Us, reaching to the Day of Resurrection? Surely you shall have whatever you judge! |
| 40. * | Ask them, which of them will guarantee that! |
| 41. * | Or do they have associates? Then let them bring their associates, if they speak truly. |
| 42. * | Upon the day when the leg shall be bared, and they shall be summoned to bow themselves, but they cannot; |
| 43. * | humbled shall be their eyes, and abasement shall overspread them, for they had been summoned to bow themselves while they were whole. |
| 44. * | So leave Me with him who cries lies to this discourse! We will draw them on little by little whence they know not; |
| 45. * | and I shall respite them -- assuredly My guile is sure. |
| 46. * | Or askest thou them for a wage, and so they are weighed down with debt? |
| 47. * | Or is the Unseen in their keeping, and so they are writing it down? |
| 48. * | So be thou patient under the judgment of thy Lord, and be not as the Man of the Fish, when he called, choking inwardly. |
| 49. * | Had there not overtaken him a blessing from his Lord he would have been cast upon the wilderness, being condemned. |
| 50. * | But his Lord had chosen him, and He placed him among the righteous. |
| 51. * | The unbelievers wellnigh strike thee down with their glances, when they hear the Reminder, and they say, 'Surely he is a man possessed!' |
| 52. * | And it is nothing but a Reminder unto all beings. |