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N. By the pen and whatever they record,
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you, by your Lord´s favor, are no madman!
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You will receive payment which will never be withheld.
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You have been [formed] with tremendous character,
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so you will observe even as they observe,
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which of you is being tested.
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Your Lord is quite Aware as to who has strayed from His path, just as He is quite Aware as to who are guided.
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Do not obey rejectors;
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they would love to have you shift about so they too may shift around.
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Do not obey every contemptible oathmonger,
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any faultfinder who goes around spreading gossip,
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hindering good, defiant, vicious,
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brawling, and a bastard besides that
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even though he possesses both money and children.
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Whenever Our verses are recited to him, he says: "Legends by primitive people!"
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We shall brand him on the snout!
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We shall test them just as We tested the owners of the orchard when they swore they would pick its fruit next morning
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and did not make any reservation about having a second chance;
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so a calamity from your Lord came round to them while they were sleeping
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and one morning it lay as if it had been already harvested!
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Thus they called out to one another next morning:
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"Get out early to your crop if you [want to] harvest it!"
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They hurried off muttering to one another:
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"Don´t admit any needy person in on you today!"
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So they went off early, grumbling yet ready for work,
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and when they saw it, they said: "We must be lost!
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In fact, we feel destitute."
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Someone more considerate among them said: "Did I not tell you: ´Why do you not glorify [God]?"´
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They said: "Glory be to our Lord; we have been doing (something) wrong."
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Still some of them pounced on others, blaming one another;
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they said: "It´s too bad for us; we have been so arrogant.
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Perhaps our Lord will exchange it for something even better than what we already have. We will plead with our Lord!"
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Such is torment, although torment in the Hereafter will be even greater if they only realized it.
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The heedful will have gardens of bliss alongside their Lord.
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Are We to treat Muslims as if they were criminals?
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What is wrong with you? How do you decide matters?
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Or do you have some book to study from?
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Do you have whatever you select from it?
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Or do you have some pledge binding on Us until Resurrection Day that you shall have whatever you decide upon?"
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Ask them which of them will lay claim to that.
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Or do they have associates [along with God]? Well, let them bring on their associates if they are so truthful.
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Some day when their shinbone will be laid bare and they will be called upon to bow down on their knees, and they will not manage to;
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with their eyes cast down, disgrace will overwhelm them. They had been called upon to bow down on their knees while they still felt safe.
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Leave Me Alone as well as anyone who rejects this account: We will lead them on gradually by means they do not recognize.
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I shall even put up with them for a while; for My plan is certain.
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Or are you asking them for some fee while they are weighted down with debt?
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Or do they hold the Unseen which they are writing down?
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Be patient with your Lord´s decision and not like the Whale´s Companion when he called out as he felt stifled.
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If favor from his Lord had not reached him, he would have been flung upon the empty beach while he was still to blame.
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His Lord picked him out and placed him with honorable people.
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The ones who disbelieve almost trip you up by glaring at you whenever they hear the Reminder, and they say: "He´s deranged!"
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Yet it is merely a Reminder to [everybody in] the Universe.
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