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.