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The Pen -Al-Qalam |
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In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful |
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[ 68. 1 ] Noon. By the Pen and that ( the angels ) write, |
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[ 68. 2 ] you are not, because of the favor of your Lord, mad. |
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[ 68. 3 ] Indeed, there is an unfailing wage for you. |
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[ 68. 4 ] Surely, you ( Prophet Muhammad ) are of a great morality. |
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[ 68. 5 ] You shall see and they will see |
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[ 68. 6 ] which of you is the demented. |
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[ 68. 7 ] Indeed, your Lord knows very well those who strayed from His Path, and those who are guided. |
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[ 68. 8 ] Therefore, do not obey those who belie, |
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[ 68. 9 ] they wish you would compromise, then, they would compromise. |
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[ 68. 10 ] And do not obey every mean swearer, |
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[ 68. 11 ] the backbiter who goes about slandering, |
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[ 68. 12 ] those who hinder good, the guilty aggressor, |
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[ 68. 13 ] the crude of low character |
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[ 68. 14 ] because he has wealth and sons. |
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[ 68. 15 ] When Our verses are recited to him, he says: 'They are but fairytales of the ancients!' |
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[ 68. 16 ] We shall mark him upon his nose! |
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[ 68. 17 ] We have tried them as We tried the owners of the garden who had sworn that in the morning they would reap it, |
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[ 68. 18 ] without adding to their swearing, ( Allah willing, InshaAllah ). |
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[ 68. 19 ] Then, a visitation from your Lord came down upon it while they slept, |
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[ 68. 20 ] and in the morning it was if the garden had been reaped. |
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[ 68. 21 ] ( Then ) in the morning they called out to one another, saying: |
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[ 68. 22 ] 'Come out to your tillage if you want to reap!' |
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[ 68. 23 ] And so they departed, whispering to one another: |
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[ 68. 24 ] 'No needy person shall set foot in it today.' |
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[ 68. 25 ] And they went out early, determined in their resolve. |
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[ 68. 26 ] But when they saw it they said: 'We have surely gone astray. |
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[ 68. 27 ] No, rather, we have been prevented!' |
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[ 68. 28 ] ( Whereupon ) the best among them said: 'Did I not say to you to exalt ( Allah )?' |
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[ 68. 29 ] 'Exaltations to Allah, our Lord,' they said, 'We were truly harmdoers.' |
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[ 68. 30 ] And they came blaming one another. |
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[ 68. 31 ] They said 'Woe to us, truly we were insolent!' |
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[ 68. 32 ] It may be that our Lord will give us better than it in exchange. To our Lord we humbly turn.' |
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[ 68. 33 ] Such was their punishment. But the punishment of the Everlasting Life is much greater, if they but knew. |
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[ 68. 34 ] Surely, the cautious shall have Gardens of Bliss with their Lord. |
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[ 68. 35 ] What, shall We make those who are submissive like the wrongdoers? |
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[ 68. 36 ] What is the matter with you then, how do you judge? |
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[ 68. 37 ] Or, have you a Book from which you study |
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[ 68. 38 ] surely in it you shall have whatever you choose! |
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[ 68. 39 ] Or, have you an oath from Us that stretches to the Day of Resurrection ( if so ) you shall surely have what you judge! |
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[ 68. 40 ] Ask them, which of them will guarantee that! |
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[ 68. 41 ] Or, do they have associates? Then let them bring their associates, if what they say is true! |
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[ 68. 42 ] On the Day when the leg shall be bared, and they are ordered to prostrate themselves, they will be unable. |
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[ 68. 43 ] Their eyes will be humbled, and humiliation shall spread over them for they were already ordered to prostrate themselves when they were undiminished. |
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[ 68. 44 ] Therefore, leave Me with he who belied this discourse. We will draw them on little by little from where they do not know. |
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[ 68. 45 ] I shall respite them, My stratagem is firm. |
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[ 68. 46 ] Or, do you ask them for a wage, so that they are burdened with debt? |
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[ 68. 47 ] Or, is the Unseen with them, and they are writing it down! |
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[ 68. 48 ] So be patient with the judgement of your Lord and do not be like the Companion of the Whale ( Jonah ), when he called out choking inwardly. |
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[ 68. 49 ] Had the favor of his Lord not come upon him, he would have been blamed, cast upon the shore. |
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[ 68. 50 ] But his Lord had chosen him and He placed him among the righteous. |
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[ 68. 51 ] When the unbelievers hear the Reminder, they nearly strike you down with their glances, and say: 'Surely, he is mad!' |
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[ 68. 52 ] But it is nothing other than a Reminder for all the worlds. |