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| 1. * | N. By the pen, and what they write, |
| 2. * | thou, O Mohammed, through the grace of thy Lord, art not distracted. |
| 3. * | Verily there is prepared for thee an everlasting reward: |
| 4. * | For thou art of a noble disposition. |
| 5. * | Thou shalt see, and the infidels shall see, |
| 6. * | which of you are bereaved of your senses. |
| 7. * | Verily thy Lord well knoweth him who wandereth from his path; and He well knoweth those who are rightly directed: |
| 8. * | Wherefore obey not those who charge thee with imposture. |
| 9. * | They desire that thou shouldest be easy with them, and they will be easy with thee. |
| 10. * | But obey not any who is a common swearer, a despicable fellow, |
| 11. * | a defamer, going about with slander, |
| 12. * | who forbiddeth that which is good, who is also a transgressor, a wicked person, |
| 13. * | cruel, and besides this, of spurious birth: |
| 14. * | Although he be possessed of wealth and many children: |
| 15. * | When our signs are rehearsed unto him, he saith, they are fables of the ancients. |
| 16. * | We will stigmatize him on the nose. |
| 17. * | Verily We have tried the Meccans, as We formerly tried the owners of the garden; when they swore that they would gather the fruit thereof in the morning, |
| 18. * | and added not the exception, if it please God: |
| 19. * | Wherefore a surrounding destruction from thy Lord encompassed it, while they slept; |
| 20. * | and in the morning it became like a garden whose fruits had been gathered. |
| 21. * | And they called the one to the other as they rose in the morning, saying, |
| 22. * | Go out early to your plantation, if ye intend to gather the fruit thereof: |
| 23. * | So they went on, whispering to one another, |
| 24. * | no poor man shall enter the garden upon you, this day. |
| 25. * | And they went forth early, with a determined purpose. |
| 26. * | And when they saw the garden blasted and destroyed, they said, we have certainly mistaken our way: |
| 27. * | But when they found it to be their own garden, they cried, verily we are not permitted to reap the fruit thereof. |
| 28. * | The worthier of them said, did I not say unto you, will ye not give praise unto God? |
| 29. * | They answered, praise be unto our Lord! Verily we have been unjust doers. |
| 30. * | And they began to blame one another, |
| 31. * | and they said, wo be unto us! Verily we have been transgressors: |
| 32. * | Peradventure our Lord will give us in exchange a better garden than this: And we earnestly beseech our Lord to pardon us. |
| 33. * | Thus is the chastisement of this life: But the chastisement of the next shall be more grievous; if they had known it, they would have taken heed. |
| 34. * | Verily for the pious are prepared, with their Lord, gardens of delight. |
| 35. * | Shall we deal with the Moslems, as with the wicked? |
| 36. * | What aileth you that ye judge thus? |
| 37. * | Have ye a book from heaven, wherein ye read |
| 38. * | that ye are therein promised that which ye shall choose? |
| 39. * | Or have ye received oaths which shall be binding upon us to the day of resurrection, that ye shall enjoy what ye imagine? |
| 40. * | Ask them, which of them will be the voucher of this. |
| 41. * | Or have they companions who will vouch for them? Let them produce their companions, therefore, if they speak truth. |
| 42. * | On a certain day the leg shall be made bare; and they shall be called upon to worship, but they shall not be able. |
| 43. * | Their looks shall be cast down: Ignominy shall attend them: For that they were invited to the worship of God, while they were in safety, but would not hear. |
| 44. * | Let Me alone, therefore, with him who accuseth this new revelation of imposture. We will lead them gradually to destruction, by ways which they know not: |
| 45. * | And I will bear with them for a long time; for my stratagem is effectual. |
| 46. * | Dost thou ask them any reward for thy preaching? But they are laden with debts. |
| 47. * | Are the secrets of futurity with them; and do they transcribe the same from the table of God's decrees? |
| 48. * | Wherefore patiently wait the judgement of thy Lord: And be not like him who was swallowed by the fish; when he cried unto God, being inwardly vexed. |
| 49. * | Had not grace from his Lord reached him, he had surely been cast forth on the naked shore, covered with shame: |
| 50. * | But his Lord chose him, and made him one of the righteous. |
| 51. * | It wanteth little but that the unbelievers strike thee down with their malicious looks, when they hear the admonition of the Koran; and they say, he is certainly distracted: |
| 52. * | But it is no other than an admonition unto all creatures. |