68:1  Nun. By the pen and what they write

68:2  By the grace of your Lord you are not a madman

68:3  and you shall have a never ending reward

68:4  You are of the highest noble character

68:5  Soon you will see - as they will se

68:6  - which of you is afflicted with madness

68:7  Surely it is your Lord Who knows those who have strayed from His Way, as He knows best those who are rightly guided

68:8  So do not yield to the unbelievers

68:9  They desire you to compromise a little, so they too would compromise

68:10  Neither yield to any mean oath-monger

68:11  mischief making slanderer

68:12  opponent of good, transgressor

68:13  wicked oppressor, and above all, ignoble by birth

68:14  though he be possessing wealth and children

68:15  When Our revelations are recited to him , he says: "They are nothing but the tales of the ancients."

68:16  Soon We shall brand him on the snout

68:17  Surely We shall try them as We tried the owners of the garden when they swore that they would pluck its fruit the next morning

68:18  without adding any reservation ( such as God willing)

68:19  So a calamity from your Lord came down upon it while they slept

68:20  and by the morning it lay as if it had been already harvested

68:21  At daybreak they called out to one another

68:22  saying: "Go out early to your crop, if you want to pick its fruit."

68:23  So they went, whispering to one another

68:24  Let no needy person enter upon you in the garden today

68:25  Thus they went out, fixed in their stingy resolve (not to give any fruit to the poor people, as if they had the full control over harvesting the fruit)

68:26  But when they saw the garden, they cried: "Surely we must have lost our way

68:27  Nay, we have become destitute."

68:28  The most upright among them said: "Did I not tell you to glorify Allah? Why did you not glorify Him?"

68:29  Then they said: "Glory be to our Lord! Surely we were unjust,"

68:30  and they started blaming one another

68:31  Finally they said: "Woe to us! Surely we had become rebellious

68:32  It may be that our Lord will give us in exchange a better garden than this: surely to our Lord do we make our humble petition."

68:33  Such is the punishment in this life; but the punishment in the Hereafter is even greater, if they but knew it

68:34  Surely the righteous will be rewarded with gardens of delight by their Lord

68:35  What do the disbelievers think? Shall We treat the Muslims as We treat the guilty

68:36  What is the matter with you? What kind of Judgment do you make

68:37  Or do you have a Book in which you read

68:38  that you shall be given whatever you choose

68:39  Or do you have a sworn covenant - a covenant binding on Us till the Day of Resurrection - that you shall have whatever you demand

68:40  Ask if any of them will vouch for that

68:41  Or do they have other gods who could help them against Allah? If so, let them produce their other gods if they are truthful

68:42  On the Day of Judgment, when the dreadful events shall be unfolded, and they shall be asked to prostrate themselves, they shall not be able to do so

68:43  They shall stand with eyes downcast, utterly humbled; because during their safe and sound earthly life they were called upon to prostrate themselves but they refused to do so

68:44  O Prophet, leave to Me those who reject this revelation. We shall lead them step by step to their ruin, in ways that they cannot perceive

68:45  I shall even put up with them for a while; for My plan is fool proof

68:46  Or have you, O Prophet, demanded a compensation from them, that they are overburdened with debt

68:47  Or do they have the knowledge of the unseen and they are writing it down

68:48  So wait with patience for the Judgment of your Lord and be not like the man of the fish (reference is to the Prophet Jonah who was swallowed by a whale), who cried when he was in distres

68:49  Had his Lord not bestowed on him His grace, he would certainly have been cast off on the naked shore, while he was condemned

68:50  But his Lord choose him and included him among the righteous

68:51  The unbelievers would almost trip you up with their eyes when they hear Our revelations (The Qur’an), and say: "He (Muhammad) is surely crazy."

68:52  This (The Qur’an) is nothing but a Reminder to all the people of the world