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Noon. By the pen and everything they write.
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By the grace of your Lord,
Prophet, you aren’t possessed.
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Indeed, you shall have an everlasting reward,
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and you have a strong character
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Soon you will see, and so will they,
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who is really demented.
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Your Lord knows best who strayed from His path, and He knows best who are the guided.
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So don’t compromise with the deniers;
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they would love to see you compromise with them so that they may compromise.
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Don’t yield to every despicable swearer of oaths –
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a fault-finder, dashing around backbiting,
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obstructing the common good, an aggressor, a sinner,
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an oppressor, and moreover of doubtful birth.
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He has plenty of wealth and children.
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When Our verses are recited to him he says, “These are ancient stories.”
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We shall soon put a mark on his nose
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We test them as We tested the owners of the orchard, when they promised they would pick the fruits early in the morning
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and they made no exceptions.
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While they slept, a disaster from your Lord struck
the orchard,
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so by the morning it was a desolate place.
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They woke up in the morning and called out to each other,
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“Hurry to your harvest, if you are going to pick its fruits.”
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So off they went, whispering to each other,
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“Absolutely no needy person will enter it today and bother you.”
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They went early, purposefully and determined.
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However, when they reached there they saw it
utterly desolate, they said, “We are lost,
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rather we are prevented
from picking the fruit!
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The middle one said, “Didn’t I tell you to glorify Allah?”
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They replied, “Glory be to Our Lord, we were wicked!”
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So they turned to one other and began blaming each other.
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They cried, “Woe to us! We were shamelessly disobedient,
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perhaps Our Lord will give us something better in exchange for the orchard; we turn genuinely in hope to Our Lord.”
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Such was the punishment,
but the punishment of the Hereafter is even greater. If only they knew
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The righteous will have attractive Gardens near their Lord.
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So are We to treat those who have submitted themselves like the sinners?
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What is the matter with you; what makes you judge in this way?
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Or do you have a book from where you have learnt
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that you will get whatever you choose?
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Or do you have solemn oaths with Us that are binding till Judgement Day – you will have whatever you decide?
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Ask them: “Who will guarantee this?
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Or do they have partners
beside Allah?” So let them bring their partners if they are truthful.
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The Day things will be extremely difficult, they will be invited to prostrate, but they won’t be able to do so,
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their eyes lowered and
faces covered with humiliation. They were invited to prostrate when they were safe and sound.
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So leave those to Me who deny this Revelation. So gradually We shall lead them to their ruin, and they will not know it,
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and We shall give them more time. My plan will work
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Or do you ask them for a wage, which will burden them heavily with debt
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Or do they have knowledge of the unseen that they write down
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So wait patiently for your Lord’s judgement and do not be like the companion in the
belly of the whale who prayed whilst in distress.
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Hadn’t a blessing from His Lord reached him, he would have been abandoned on the barren shore, condemned forever.
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So His Lord
accepted his plea and selected him, and He made him among the righteous.
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They wish to strike you down with their
evil eyes; when the disbelievers hear the Reminder they say, “He is mad!”
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This is a clear Reminder for all people