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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