| m_ali | |
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| 1. * | (By) the inkstand and the pen and that which they write! |
| 2. * | By the grace of thy Lord thou art not mad. |
| 3. * | And surely thine is a reward never to be cut off. |
| 4. * | And surely thou hast sublime morals. |
| 5. * | So thou wilt see, and they (too) will see, |
| 6. * | Which of you is mad. |
| 7. * | Surely thy Lord knows best who is erring from His way, and He knows best those who go aright. |
| 8. * | So obey not the rejectors. |
| 9. * | They wish that thou shouldst be pliant, so they (too) would be pliant. |
| 10. * | And obey not any mean swearer, |
| 11. * | Defamer, going about with slander, |
| 12. * | Hinderer of good, outstepping the limits, sinful, |
| 13. * | Ignoble, besides all that, notoriously mischievous -- |
| 14. * | Because he possess wealth and sons. |
| 15. * | When Our messages are recited to him, he says: Stories of those of yore! |
| 16. * | We shall brand him on the snout. |
| 17. * | We shall try them as We tried the owners of the garden, when they swore to pluck its fruits in the morning, |
| 18. * | And would not set aside a portion (for the poor). |
| 19. * | But a visitation from thy Lord came on it, while they slept. |
| 20. * | So it became as black, barren land -- |
| 21. * | Then they called out one to another in the morning, |
| 22. * | Saying: Go early to your tilth, if you would pluck (the fruit). |
| 23. * | So they went, while they said one to another in low tones: |
| 24. * | No poor man shall enter it to-day to you -- |
| 25. * | And in the morning they went, having the power to prevent. |
| 26. * | But when they saw it, they said: Surely we are in error; |
| 27. * | Nay, we are made to suffer privation. |
| 28. * | The best of them said: Said I not to you, Why do you not glorify (Allah)? |
| 29. * | They said: Glory be to our Lord! surely we were unjust. |
| 30. * | Then some of them advanced against others, blaming each other. |
| 31. * | Said they: O woe to us! Surely we were inordinate -- |
| 32. * | Maybe, our Lord will give us instead one better than it -- surely to our Lord we make petition. |
| 33. * | Such is the chastisement. And certainly the chastisement of the Hereafter is greater, did they but know! |
| 34. * | Surely the dutiful have with their Lord Gardens of bliss. |
| 35. * | Shall We then make those who submit as the guilty? |
| 36. * | What is the matter with you? How do you judge? |
| 37. * | Or have you a book wherein you read |
| 38. * | That you shall surely have therein what you choose? |
| 39. * | Or have you covenants from us on oath, extending to the day of Resurrection, that yours is surely what you judge? |
| 40. * | Ask them which of them will vouch for that. |
| 41. * | Or have they associate-gods? Then let them bring their associates, if they are truthful. |
| 42. * | On the day when thee is a severe affliction, and they are called upon to prostrate themselves, but they are not able -- |
| 43. * | Their looks cast down, abasement will cover them. And they were indeed called upon to prostrate themselves, while yet they were safe. |
| 44. * | So leave Me alone with him who rejects this announcement. We shall overtake them by degrees, from whence they know not. |
| 45. * | And I bear with them, surely My plan is firm. |
| 46. * | Or dost thou ask from them a reward, so that they are burdened with debt? |
| 47. * | Or is the unseen with them so that they write (it) down? |
| 48. * | So wait patiently for the judgment of thy Lord, and be not like the Companion of the fish, when he cried while he was in distress. |
| 49. * | Had not favour from his Lord reached him, he would certainly have been cast down on naked ground, while he was blamed. |
| 50. * | Then his Lord chose him, and He made him of the righteous. |
| 51. * | And those who disbelieve would almost smite thee with their eyes when they hear the Reminder, and they say: Surely he is mad! |
| 52. * | And it is naught but a Reminder for the nations. |