- 68:1
- N. By the pen and whatever they record,
- 68:2
- you, by your Lord´s favor, are no madman!
- 68:3
- You will receive payment which will never be withheld.
- 68:4
- You have been [formed] with tremendous character,
- 68:5
- so you will observe even as they observe,
- 68:6
- which of you is being tested.
- 68:7
- Your Lord is quite Aware as to who has strayed from His path, just as He is quite Aware as to who are guided.
- 68:8
- Do not obey rejectors;
- 68:9
- they would love to have you shift about so they too may shift around.
- 68:10
- Do not obey every contemptible oathmonger,
- 68:11
- any faultfinder who goes around spreading gossip,
- 68:12
- hindering good, defiant, vicious,
- 68:13
- brawling, and a bastard besides that
- 68:14
- even though he possesses both money and children.
- 68:15
- Whenever Our verses are recited to him, he says: "Legends by primitive people!"
- 68:16
- We shall brand him on the snout!
- 68:17
- We shall test them just as We tested the owners of the orchard when they swore they would pick its fruit next morning
- 68:18
- and did not make any reservation about having a second chance;
- 68:19
- so a calamity from your Lord came round to them while they were sleeping
- 68:20
- and one morning it lay as if it had been already harvested!
- 68:21
- Thus they called out to one another next morning:
- 68:22
- "Get out early to your crop if you [want to] harvest it!"
- 68:23
- They hurried off muttering to one another:
- 68:24
- "Don´t admit any needy person in on you today!"
- 68:25
- So they went off early, grumbling yet ready for work,
- 68:26
- and when they saw it, they said: "We must be lost!
- 68:27
- In fact, we feel destitute."
- 68:28
- Someone more considerate among them said: "Did I not tell you: ´Why do you not glorify [God]?"´
- 68:29
- They said: "Glory be to our Lord; we have been doing (something) wrong."
- 68:30
- Still some of them pounced on others, blaming one another;
- 68:31
- they said: "It´s too bad for us; we have been so arrogant.
- 68:32
- Perhaps our Lord will exchange it for something even better than what we already have. We will plead with our Lord!"
- 68:33
- Such is torment, although torment in the Hereafter will be even greater if they only realized it.
- 68:34
- The heedful will have gardens of bliss alongside their Lord.
- 68:35
- Are We to treat Muslims as if they were criminals?
- 68:36
- What is wrong with you? How do you decide matters?
- 68:37
- Or do you have some book to study from?
- 68:38
- Do you have whatever you select from it?
- 68:39
- Or do you have some pledge binding on Us until Resurrection Day that you shall have whatever you decide upon?"
- 68:40
- Ask them which of them will lay claim to that.
- 68:41
- Or do they have associates [along with God]? Well, let them bring on their associates if they are so truthful.
- 68:42
- Some day when their shinbone will be laid bare and they will be called upon to bow down on their knees, and they will not manage to;
- 68:43
- with their eyes cast down, disgrace will overwhelm them. They had been called upon to bow down on their knees while they still felt safe.
- 68:44
- Leave Me Alone as well as anyone who rejects this account: We will lead them on gradually by means they do not recognize.
- 68:45
- I shall even put up with them for a while; for My plan is certain.
- 68:46
- Or are you asking them for some fee while they are weighted down with debt?
- 68:47
- Or do they hold the Unseen which they are writing down?
- 68:48
- Be patient with your Lord´s decision and not like the Whale´s Companion when he called out as he felt stifled.
- 68:49
- If favor from his Lord had not reached him, he would have been flung upon the empty beach while he was still to blame.
- 68:50
- His Lord picked him out and placed him with honorable people.
- 68:51
- The ones who disbelieve almost trip you up by glaring at you whenever they hear the Reminder, and they say: "He´s deranged!"
- 68:52
- Yet it is merely a Reminder to [everybody in] the Universe.
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