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Nun. By the PEN and by what they write,
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Thou, O Prophet; by the grace of thy Lord art not possessed!
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And truly a boundless recompense doth await thee,
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For thou art of a noble nature.
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But thou shalt see and they shall see
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Which of you is the demented.
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Now thy Lord! well knoweth He the man who erreth from his path, and well doth he know those who have yielded to Guidance;
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Give not place, therefore, to those who treat thee as a liar:
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They desire thee to deal smoothly with them: then would they be smooth as oil with thee:
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But yield not to the man of oaths, a despicable person,
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Defamer, going about with slander,
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Hinderer of the good, transgressor, criminal,
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Harsh-beside this, impure by birth,
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Though a man of riches and blessed with sons.
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Who when our wondrous verses are recited to him saith-"Fables of the ancients."
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We will brand him on the nostrils.
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Verily, we have proved them (the Meccans) as we proved the owners of the garden, when they swore that at morn they would cut its fruits;
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But added no reserve.
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Wherefore an encircling desolation from thy Lord swept round it while they slumbered,
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And in the morning it was like a garden whose fruits had all been cut.
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Then at dawn they called to each other,
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Go out early to your field, if ye would cut your dates.
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So on they went whispering to each other,
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No poor man shall set foot this day within your garden;
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And they went out at daybreak with this settled purpose.
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But when they beheld it, they said, "Truly we have been in fault:
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Yes! we are forbidden our fruits."
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The most rightminded of them said, "Did I not say to you, Will ye not give praise to God?"
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They said, "Glory to our Lord! Truly we have done amiss."
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And they fell to blaming one another:
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They said, "Oh woe to us! we have indeed transgressed!
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Haply our Lord will give us in exchange a better garden than this: verily we crave it of our Lord."
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Such hath been our chastisement-but heavier shall be the chastisement of the next world. Ah! did they but know it.
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Verily, for the God-fearing are gardens of delight in the presence of their Lord.
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Shall we then deal with those who have surrendered themselves to God, as with those who offend him?
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What hath befallen you that ye thus judge?
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Have ye a Scripture wherein ye can search out
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That ye shall have the things ye choose?
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Or have ye received oaths which shall bind Us even until the day of the resurrection, that ye shall have what yourselves judge right?
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Ask them which of them will guarantee this?
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Or is it that they have joined gods with God? let them produce those associate-gods of theirs, if they speak truth.
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On the day when men's legs shall be bared, and they shall be called upon to bow in adoration, they shall not be able:
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Their looks shall be downcast: shame shall cover them: because, while yet in safety, they were invited to bow in worship, but would not obey.
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Leave me alone therefore with him who chargeth this revelation with imposture. We will lead them by degrees to their ruin; by ways which they know not;
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Yet will I bear long with them; for my plan is sure.
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Askest thou any recompense from them? But they are burdened with debt.
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Are the secret things within their ken? Do they copy them from the Book of God?
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Patiently then await the judgment of thy Lord, and be not like him who was in the fish, when in deep distress he cried to God.
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Had not favour from his Lord reached him, cast forth would he have been on the naked shore, overwhelmed with shame:
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But his Lord chose him and made him of the just.
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Almost would the infidels strike thee down with their very looks when they hear the warning of the Koran. And they say, "He is certainly possessed."
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Yet is it nothing less than a warning for all creatures.
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