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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 sweare
68:11  Defamer, going about with slande
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 astra
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 (that is, 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