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| 1. * | Nun. By the PEN and by what they write, |
| 2. * | Thou, O Prophet; by the grace of thy Lord art not possessed! |
| 3. * | And truly a boundless recompense doth await thee, |
| 4. * | For thou art of a noble nature. |
| 5. * | But thou shalt see and they shall see |
| 6. * | Which of you is the demented. |
| 7. * | Now thy Lord! well knoweth He the man who erreth from his path, and well doth he know those who have yielded to Guidance; |
| 8. * | Give not place, therefore, to those who treat thee as a liar: |
| 9. * | They desire thee to deal smoothly with them: then would they be smooth as oil with thee: |
| 10. * | But yield not to the man of oaths, a despicable person, |
| 11. * | Defamer, going about with slander, |
| 12. * | Hinderer of the good, transgressor, criminal, |
| 13. * | Harsh-beside this, impure by birth, |
| 14. * | Though a man of riches and blessed with sons. |
| 15. * | Who when our wondrous verses are recited to him saith-"Fables of the ancients." |
| 16. * | We will brand him on the nostrils. |
| 17. * | 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; |
| 18. * | But added no reserve. |
| 19. * | Wherefore an encircling desolation from thy Lord swept round it while they slumbered, |
| 20. * | And in the morning it was like a garden whose fruits had all been cut. |
| 21. * | Then at dawn they called to each other, |
| 22. * | Go out early to your field, if ye would cut your dates. |
| 23. * | So on they went whispering to each other, |
| 24. * | No poor man shall set foot this day within your garden; |
| 25. * | And they went out at daybreak with this settled purpose. |
| 26. * | But when they beheld it, they said, "Truly we have been in fault: |
| 27. * | Yes! we are forbidden our fruits." |
| 28. * | The most rightminded of them said, "Did I not say to you, Will ye not give praise to God?" |
| 29. * | They said, "Glory to our Lord! Truly we have done amiss." |
| 30. * | And they fell to blaming one another: |
| 31. * | They said, "Oh woe to us! we have indeed transgressed! |
| 32. * | Haply our Lord will give us in exchange a better garden than this: verily we crave it of our Lord." |
| 33. * | Such hath been our chastisement-but heavier shall be the chastisement of the next world. Ah! did they but know it. |
| 34. * | Verily, for the God-fearing are gardens of delight in the presence of their Lord. |
| 35. * | Shall we then deal with those who have surrendered themselves to God, as with those who offend him? |
| 36. * | What hath befallen you that ye thus judge? |
| 37. * | Have ye a Scripture wherein ye can search out |
| 38. * | That ye shall have the things ye choose? |
| 39. * | Or have ye received oaths which shall bind Us even until the day of the resurrection, that ye shall have what yourselves judge right? |
| 40. * | Ask them which of them will guarantee this? |
| 41. * | Or is it that they have joined gods with God? let them produce those associate-gods of theirs, if they speak truth. |
| 42. * | 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: |
| 43. * | 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. |
| 44. * | 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; |
| 45. * | Yet will I bear long with them; for my plan is sure. |
| 46. * | Askest thou any recompense from them? But they are burdened with debt. |
| 47. * | Are the secret things within their ken? Do they copy them from the Book of God? |
| 48. * | 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. |
| 49. * | Had not favour from his Lord reached him, cast forth would he have been on the naked shore, overwhelmed with shame: |
| 50. * | But his Lord chose him and made him of the just. |
| 51. * | 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." |
| 52. * | Yet is it nothing less than a warning for all creatures. |