"The Pen"
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
"68.1": Noon. I swear by the pen and what the angels write,
"68.2": By the grace of your Lord you are not mad.
"68.3": And most surely you shall have a reward never to be cut off.
"68.4": And most surely you conform (yourself) to sublime morality.
"68.5": So you shall see, and they (too) shall see,
"68.6": Which of you is afflicted with madness.
"68.7": Surely your Lord best knows him who errs from His way, and He best knows the followers of the right course.
"68.8": So do not yield to the rejecters.
"68.9": They wish that you should be pliant so they (too) would be pliant.
"68.10": And yield not to any mean swearer
"68.11": Defamer, going about with slander
"68.12": Forbidder of good, outstepping the limits, sinful,
"68.13": Ignoble, besides all that, base-born;
"68.14": Because he possesses wealth and sons.
"68.15": When Our communications are recited to him, he says: Stories of those of yore.
"68.16": We will brand him on the nose.
"68.17": 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,
"68.18": And were not willing to set aside a portion (for the poor).
"68.19": Then there encompassed it a visitation from your Lord while they were sleeping.
"68.20": So it became as black, barren land.
"68.21": And they called out to each other in the morning,
"68.22": Saying: Go early to your tilth if you would cut (the produce).
"68.23": So they went, while they consulted together secretly,
"68.24": Saying: No poor man shall enter it today upon you.
"68.25": And in the morning they went, having the power to prevent.
"68.26": But when they saw it, they said: Most surely we have gone astray
"68.27": Nay! we are made to suffer privation.
"68.28": The best of them said: Did I not say to you, Why do you not glorify (Allah)?
"68.29": They said: Glory be to our Lord, surely we were unjust.
"68.30": Then some of them advanced against others, blaming each other.
"68.31": Said they: O woe to us! surely we were inordinate:
"68.32": Maybe, our Lord will give us instead one better than it; surely to our Lord do we make our humble petition.
"68.33": Such is the chastisement, and certainly the chastisement of the hereafter is greater, did they but know!
"68.34": Surely those who guard (against evil) shall have with their Lord gardens of bliss.
"68.35": What! shall We then make (i.e. treat) those who submit as the guilty?
"68.36": What has happened to you? How do you judge?
"68.37": Or have you a book wherein you read,
"68.38": That you have surely therein what you choose?
"68.39": 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?
"68.40": Ask them which of them will vouch for that,
"68.41": Or have they associates if they are truthful.
"68.42": 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,
"68.43": Their looks cast down, abasement shall overtake them; and they were called upon to make obeisance indeed while yet they were safe.
"68.44": So leave Me and him who rejects this announcement; We will overtake them by degrees, from whence they perceive not:
"68.45": And I do bear with them, surely My plan is firm.
"68.46": Or do you ask from them a reward, so that they are burdened with debt?
"68.47": Or have they (the knowledge of) the unseen, so that they write (it) down?
"68.48": 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.
"68.49": 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.
"68.50": Then his Lord chose him, and He made him of the good.
"68.51": And those who disbelieve would almost smite you with their eyes when they hear the reminder, and they say: Most surely he is mad.
"68.52": And it is naught but a reminder to the nations.
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