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

68:2  by your Lord’s blessing, you are not, crazy,

68:3  and yours indeed will be an everlasting reward,

68:4  and indeed you possess a great character.

68:5  You will see and they will see,

68:6  which one of you is crazy.

68:7  Indeed your Lord knows best those who stray from His way, and He knows best those who are guided.

68:8  So do not obey the deniers,

68:9  who are eager that you should be flexible, so that they [too] may be flexible [towards you].

68:10  And do not obey any vile swearer,

68:11  scandal-monger, talebearer,

68:12  hinderer of all good, sinful transgressor,

68:13  callous and, on top of that, baseborn

68:14  —[who behaves in such a manner only] because he has wealth and children.

68:15  When Our signs are recited to him, he says, ‘Myths of the ancients!’

68:16  Soon We shall brand him on his snout.

68:17  Indeed we have tested them just as We tested the People of the Garden when they vowed they would gather its fruit at dawn,

68:18  and they did not make any exception.

68:19  Then, a visitation from your Lord visited it while they were asleep.

68:20  So, by dawn it was like a harvested field.

68:21  At dawn they called out to one another,

68:22  ‘Get off early to your field if you have to gather [the fruits].’

68:23  So off they went, murmuring to one another:

68:24  ‘Today no needy man shall come to you in it.’

68:25  And they set out at early morning, [considering themselves] able to deprive [the poor of its fruit].

68:26  But when they saw it, they said, ‘We have indeed lost our way!’

68:27  ‘No, it is we who have been deprived!’

68:28  The most upright among them said, ‘Did I not tell you, ‘‘Why do you not glorify [Allah]?’’ ’

68:29  They said, ‘Immaculate is our Lord! We have indeed been wrongdoers!’

68:30  Then they turned to one another, blaming each other.

68:31  They said, ‘Woe to us! Indeed, we have been rebellious.

68:32  Maybe our Lord will give us a better one in its place. Indeed we earnestly beseech our Lord.’

68:33  Such was their punishment; and the punishment of the Hereafter is surely greater, had they known.

68:34  Indeed for the Godwary there will be gardens of bliss near their Lord.

68:35  Shall We treat those who submit [to Us] as [We treat] the guilty?

68:36  What is the matter with you? How do you judge!

68:37  Do you possess a scripture in which you read

68:38  that you shall have in it whatever you choose?

68:39  Do you have a pledge binding on Us until the Day of Resurrection, that you shall indeed have whatever you decide?

68:40  Ask them, which of them will aver [any of] that!

68:41  Do they have any ‘partners’ [that they claim for Allah]? Then let them produce their partners, if they are truthful.

68:42  The day when the catastrophe occurs and they are summoned to prostrate themselves, they will not be able [to do it].

68:43  With a humbled look [in their eyes], they will be overcast by abasement. Certainly, they were summoned to prostrate themselves while they were yet sound.

68:44  So leave Me with those who deny this discourse. We will draw them imperceptibly [into ruin], whence they do not know.

68:45  I will grant them respite, for My devising is indeed sure.

68:46  Do you ask them for a reward, so that they are weighed down with debt?

68:47  Do they possess [access to] the Unseen, so that they write it down?

68:48  So submit patiently to the judgement of your Lord, and do not be like the Man of the Fish who called out as he choked with grief.

68:49  Had it not been for a blessing that came to his rescue from his Lord, he would surely have been cast on the bare shore, being blameworthy.

68:50  So his Lord chose him and made him one of the righteous.

68:51  Indeed the faithless almost devour you with their eyes when they hear this Reminder, and they say, ‘He is indeed crazy.’

68:52  Yet it is just a reminder for all the nations.