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Chapter 68 (Sura 68)
1; NUN. I CALL to witness the pen and what they inscribe,
2; You are not demented by the grace of your Lord.
3; There is surely reward unending for you,
4; For you are verily born of sublime nature.
5; So you will see, and they will realise,
6; Who is distracted.
7; Verily your Lord knows those who have gone astray from His path, and He knows those who are guided on the way.
8; So do not comply with those who deny:
9; They only want that you should relent, so that they may come to terms.
10; Do not heed a contemptible swearer,
11; Or backbiter, calumniator, slanderer,
12; Who hinders men from (doing) good, the transgressor, the iniquitous,
13; Crude, and above all, mean and infamous,
14; Simply because he possesses wealth and children.
15; When you recite Our revelations to him, he says: “These are fables of long ago.”
16; We shall brand him on the muzzle.
17; We have tried you as We tried the owners of the garden when they vowed to gather the fruits in the morning
18; But did not add: “If God may please.”
19; Then a calamity from your Lord fell upon it, but they remained fast asleep.
20; So by the morning it seemed as though picked clean.
21; At daybreak they called to each other:
22; “If you want to gather the fruits, let us go early to the plantation.”
23; So they departed, talking in low voices:
24; “Let no needy person come to you within it today.”
25; They left early in the morning bent on this purpose.
26; When they saw (and did not recognise it) they said: “Surely we have lost the way.
27; No. In fact we have been deprived of it.”
28; One who was temperate among them, said: “Did I not say: ´Why don´t you priase God?´”
29; “Glory to our Lord,” they said; we were really in the wrong.”
30; Then they started blaming one another,
31; Saying: “Alas the woe, we were iniquitous.
32; Maybe our Lord will give us better than this. We turn to our Lord in supplication.”
33; Such is Our chastisement; and the punishment of the Hereafter will be greater, if only they knew!
34; For those who fear God there are pleasure gardens with their Lord.
35; Should We treat those who submit and obey in the same way as those who are culpable?
36; What has come upon you that you judge in such a wise?
37; Or have you a Book in which you read
38; That you can surely have whatever you choose?
39; Or have you taken a binding promise from Us which would hold till the Day of Judgement, that you will get whatever you demand?
40; Ask them: “Which of you is able to vouch for this?”
41; Or have they any partners? Let them bring their partners then, if what they say is true.
42; On the day the great calamity befalls, and they are called to bow in homage, they will not be able to do so.
43; Lowered will be their eyes, disgrace overwhelming them. They had indeed been called to bow in homage when they were free of blame.
44; So leave those who deny this Discourse to Me. We shall lead them step by step to (ruin) in a way they will not know.
45; Yet I will give them respite: Surely My plan is compact.
46; Do you ask for any compensation from them that they are burdened with want?
47; Or do they have knowledge of the unknown which they copy down?
48; So wait with patience for the judgement of your Lord, and do not be like (onah) of the fish who called (to his Lord) when he was choked with anger.
49; Had it not been for a favour from his Lord he would have been cast blame-worthy on a barren plain.
50; Then his Lord chose him and placed him among the upright.
51; But the unbelievers would like to stare you out of balance when they hear the warning, and say: “Surely he is possessed;”
52; Whilst it is no more than reminder for the people of the world.