| shakir | |
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| 1. * | Noon. I swear by the pen and what the angels write, |
| 2. * | By the grace of your Lord you are not mad. |
| 3. * | And most surely you shall have a reward never to be cut off. |
| 4. * | And most surely you conform (yourself) to sublime morality. |
| 5. * | So you shall see, and they (too) shall see, |
| 6. * | Which of you is afflicted with madness. |
| 7. * | Surely your Lord best knows him who errs from His way, and He best knows the followers of the right course. |
| 8. * | So do not yield to the rejecters. |
| 9. * | They wish that you should be pliant so they (too) would be pliant. |
| 10. * | And yield not to any mean swearer |
| 11. * | Defamer, going about with slander |
| 12. * | Forbidder of good, outstepping the limits, sinful, |
| 13. * | Ignoble, besides all that, base-born; |
| 14. * | Because he possesses wealth and sons. |
| 15. * | When Our communications are recited to him, he says: Stories of those of yore. |
| 16. * | We will brand him on the nose. |
| 17. * | Surely We will try them as We tried the owners of the garden, when they swore that they would certainly cut off the produce in the morning, |
| 18. * | And were not willing to set aside a portion (for the poor). |
| 19. * | Then there encompassed it a visitation from your Lord while they were sleeping. |
| 20. * | So it became as black, barren land. |
| 21. * | And they called out to each other in the morning, |
| 22. * | Saying: Go early to your tilth if you would cut (the produce). |
| 23. * | So they went, while they consulted together secretly, |
| 24. * | Saying: No poor man shall enter it today upon you. |
| 25. * | And in the morning they went, having the power to prevent. |
| 26. * | But when they saw it, they said: Most surely we have gone astray |
| 27. * | Nay! we are made to suffer privation. |
| 28. * | The best of them said: Did I not say 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 do we make our humble petition. |
| 33. * | Such is the chastisement, and certainly the chastisement of the hereafter is greater, did they but know! |
| 34. * | Surely those who guard (against evil) shall have with their Lord gardens of bliss. |
| 35. * | What! shall We then make (that is, treat) those who submit as the guilty? |
| 36. * | What has happened to you? How do you judge? |
| 37. * | Or have you a book wherein you read, |
| 38. * | That you have surely therein what you choose? |
| 39. * | Or have you received from Us an agreement confirmed by an oath extending to the day of resurrection that you shall surely have what you demand? |
| 40. * | Ask them which of them will vouch for that, |
| 41. * | Or have they associates if they are truthful. |
| 42. * | On the day when there shall be a severe affliction, and they shall be called upon to make obeisance, but they shall not be able, |
| 43. * | Their looks cast down, abasement shall overtake them; and they were called upon to make obeisance indeed while yet they were safe. |
| 44. * | So leave Me and him who rejects this announcement; We will overtake them by degrees, from whence they perceive not: |
| 45. * | And I do bear with them, surely My plan is firm. |
| 46. * | Or do you ask from them a reward, so that they are burdened with debt? |
| 47. * | Or have they (the knowledge of) the unseen, so that they write (it) down? |
| 48. * | So wait patiently for the judgment of your Lord, and be not like the companion of the fish, when he cried while he was in distress. |
| 49. * | Were it not that favor from his Lord had overtaken him, he would certainly have been cast down upon the naked Found while he was blamed. |
| 50. * | Then his Lord chose him, and He made him of the good. |
| 51. * | And those who disbelieve would almost smite you with their eyes when they hear the reminder, and they say: Most surely he is mad. Those who disbelieved show their ridicule in their eyes when they hear the message and say, "He is crazy!" |
| 52. * | And it is naught but a reminder to the nations. It is in fact a message to the world. |