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1.  *     N and the writing utensil/pen and what they write/inscribe/draft.
 
2.  *     you are not with your Lord's blessing/goodness with mad/insane.
 
3.  *     And that truly for you (is) a reward (E) not interrupted/weakened (continuous).
 
4.  *     And that you are on (E) great nature/character.
 
5.  *     So you will see/look/understand, and they (will) see/look/understand.
 
6.  *     With which of you (is) the insane.
 
7.  *     That truly your Lord He is more knowing with who misguided from His way/path, and He is more knowing with the guided.
 
8.  *     So do not obey the liars/deniers/falsifiers.
 
9.  *     They wished/desired if you grease/flatter with hypocrisy, so they grease/flatter with hypocrisy.
 
10.  *     And do not obey every/each habitual swearer despised/humiliated.
 
11.  *     Backbiter/urger, walking gossiper with slander/malice.
 
12.  *     Miser/often preventing to the good/generosity, transgressor/violator, sinner/criminal.
 
13.  *     Rough/rude, after that a known mean low or evil person.
 
14.  *     That (E) he was (owner) of property/wealth and sons and daughters.
 
15.  *     If Our verses/evidences are read/recited on him, he said: "The first's/beginner's myths."
 
16.  *     We will brand him by fire/mark him on the nose/trunk/snout (usually used for elephants).
 
17.  *     We (E) tested them as/like We tested the treed garden's owners/friends/company when they swore/made oath (that) they will cut it off (E) (will harvest it) by the morning/day break.
 
18.  *     And nor they exempt/make exception.
 
19.  *     So a circler/walker (twister/tornado) circled/walked on them, and (while) they are sleeping/quiet/ still.
 
20.  *     So it became/became in the morning as/like the harvested land/isolated sandy area.
 
21.  *     So they called each other in the morning/daybreak:
 
22.  *     That (E) go early on (to) your cultivation/plantation if you were cutting/shearing off (harvesting).
 
23.  *     So they left/set out, and they are conversing quietly:
 
24.  *     That (E) no poor oppressed enters it (E) on you today/the day.
 
25.  *     And they went early on anger/prevention, capable/able.
 
26.  *     So when they saw it, they said: "That we are misguided (E)."
 
27.  *     But we are deprived.
 
28.  *     Their most honoured/moderate said: "Did I not say to you if only you praise/glorify?"
 
29.  *     They said: "Our Lord's praise/glory, we were unjust/oppressive."
 
30.  *     So some/part of them approached/came on (to) some (each other) blaming/reprimanding each other.
 
31.  *     They said: "Oh, our calamity, we (E), we were tyrannizing/arrogant."
 
32.  *     Maybe/perhaps that (E) our Lord exchanges/substitutes (for) us better than it, that we are to our Lord desiring/wishing.
 
33.  *     As/like that (is) the torture, and the end's (other life's) torture (E) (is) greater if they were knowing.
 
34.  *     That truly to the fearing and obeying at their Lord (are) the blessed treed gardens/paradises.
 
35.  *     Do We make the Moslems/submitters as the criminals/sinners?
 
36.  *     What/why (is it) for you, how you judge/rule?
 
37.  *     Or for you (is) a Book in it you study/read ?
 
38.  *     That for you in it (is) what (E) you prefer choose.
 
39.  *     Or for you (are) rights/oaths on Us reaching to the Resurrection Day, that for you then (is) what (E) you judge/rule.
 
40.  *     Ask/question them which of them (is) with that a leader/grantor?
 
41.  *     Or for them (are) partners (with God)? So they should come with their partners (with God) if they were truthful.
 
42.  *     A day/time being uncovered/(relieved) of (a) shin/leg, and they be/are being called repeatedly to the prostration, so they are not able.
 
43.  *     Their eyesights/understanding (are) humble/submissive, humiliation/disgrace burdens/depresses them, and they had become being called repeatedly to the prostration and they are safe/secure.
 
44.  *     So leave Me and who lies/denies/falsifies with this the information/speech, We will lead them gradually from where/when they do not know.
 
45.  *     And I extend for them in time/life, that truly My plotting/conspiring (is) solid/strong.
 
46.  *     Or (do) you ask/question them (for) a wage/fee so they are heavy/loaded/burdened from (a) burdensome debt?
 
47.  *     Or at them (is) the unseen/absent/(future), so they are writing/dictating/ordering?
 
48.  *     So be patient for your Lord's judgment/rule, and do not be as the large fish's/whale's owner/friend/company when he called/cried and he is held/quietened/suppressed.
 
49.  *     Had it not been for a blessing/goodness from his Lord, (that) caught up (to)/reached him, he would have been discarded/cast off at the open/space, and he is blamed/defamed.
 
50.  *     So his Lord chose/purified him, so He made him from the correct/righteous.
 
51.  *     And if those who disbelieved were about/almost to make you stumble/slip (E) with their eyesights when they heard/listened (to) the remembrance/reminder (the Koran), and they say: "That he truly is mad/insane (E) ".
 
52.  *     And he/it is not except a reminder to the creations all together/(universes).431