| 1 | Noon. I swear by the pen and what the angels write, | |
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| 2 | By the grace of your Lord you are not mad. | |
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| 3 | And most surely you shall have a reward never to be cut off. | |
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| 4 | And most surely you conform (yourself) to sublime morality. | |
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| 5 | So you shall see, and they (too) shall see, | |
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| 6 | Which of you is afflicted with madness. | |
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| 7 | Surely your Lord best knows him who errs from His way, and He best knows the followers of the right course. | |
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| 8 | So do not yield to the rejecters. | |
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| 9 | They wish that you should be pliant so they (too) would be pliant. | |
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| 10 | And yield not to any mean swearer | |
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| 11 | Defamer, going about with slander | |
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| 12 | Forbidder of good, outstepping the limits, sinful, | |
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| 13 | Ignoble, besides all that, base-born; | |
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| 14 | Because he possesses wealth and sons. | |
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| 15 | When Our communications are recited to him, he says: Stories of those of yore. | |
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| 16 | We will brand him on the nose. | |
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| 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, | |
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| 18 | And were not willing to set aside a portion (for the poor). | |
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| 19 | Then there encompassed it a visitation from your Lord while they were sleeping. | |
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| 20 | So it became as black, barren land. | |
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| 21 | And they called out to each other in the morning, | |
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| 22 | Saying: Go early to your tilth if you would cut (the produce). | |
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| 23 | So they went, while they consulted together secretly, | |
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| 24 | Saying: No poor man shall enter it today upon you. | |
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| 25 | And in the morning they went, having the power to prevent. | |
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| 26 | But when they saw it, they said: Most surely we have gone astray | |
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| 27 | Nay! we are made to suffer privation. | |
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| 28 | The best of them said: Did I not say to you, Why do you not glorify (Allah)? | |
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| 29 | They said: Glory be to our Lord, surely we were unjust. | |
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| 30 | Then some of them advanced against others, blaming each other. | |
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| 31 | Said they: O woe to us! surely we were inordinate: | |
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| 32 | Maybe, our Lord will give us instead one better than it; surely to our Lord do we make our humble petition. | |
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| 33 | Such is the chastisement, and certainly the chastisement of the hereafter is greater, did they but know! | |
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| 34 | Surely those who guard (against evil) shall have with their Lord gardens of bliss. | |
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| 35 | What! shall We then make (that is, treat) those who submit as the guilty? | |
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| 36 | What has happened to you? How do you judge? | |
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| 37 | Or have you a book wherein you read, | |
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| 38 | That you have surely therein what you choose? | |
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| 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? | |
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| 40 | Ask them which of them will vouch for that, | |
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| 41 | Or have they associates if they are truthful. | |
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| 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, | |
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| 43 | Their looks cast down, abasement shall overtake them; and they were called upon to make obeisance indeed while yet they were safe. | |
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| 44 | So leave Me and him who rejects this announcement; We will overtake them by degrees, from whence they perceive not: | |
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| 45 | And I do bear with them, surely My plan is firm. | |
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| 46 | Or do you ask from them a reward, so that they are burdened with debt? | |
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| 47 | Or have they (the knowledge of) the unseen, so that they write (it) down? | |
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| 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. | |
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| 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. | |
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| 50 | Then his Lord chose him, and He made him of the good. | |
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| 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. | |
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| 52 | And it is naught but a reminder to the nations. | |
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