| Sura 68 Aya 1 to 52 | |||
| 1 | [ 68: 1 ] Noon. I swear by the pen and what the angels write, | ||
| 2 | [ 68: 2 ] By the grace of your Lord you are not mad. | ||
| 3 | [ 68: 3 ] And most surely you shall have a reward never to be cut off. | ||
| 4 | [ 68: 4 ] And most surely you conform ( yourself ) to sublime morality. | ||
| 5 | [ 68: 5 ] So you shall see, and they ( too ) shall see, | ||
| 6 | [ 68: 6 ] Which of you is afflicted with madness. | ||
| 7 | [ 68: 7 ] Surely your Lord best knows him who errs from His way, and He best knows the followers of the right course. | ||
| 8 | [ 68: 8 ] So do not yield to the rejecters. | ||
| 9 | [ 68: 9 ] They wish that you should be pliant so they ( too ) would be pliant. | ||
| 10 | [ 68: 10 ] And yield not to any mean swearer | ||
| 11 | [ 68: 11 ] Defamer, going about with slander | ||
| 12 | [ 68: 12 ] Forbidder of good, outstepping the limits, sinful, | ||
| 13 | [ 68: 13 ] Ignoble, besides all that, base-born; | ||
| 14 | [ 68: 14 ] Because he possesses wealth and sons. | ||
| 15 | [ 68: 15 ] When Our communications are recited to him, he says: Stories of those of yore. | ||
| 16 | [ 68: 16 ] We will brand him on the nose. | ||
| 17 | [ 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, | ||
| 18 | [ 68: 18 ] And were not willing to set aside a portion ( for the poor ). | ||
| 19 | [ 68: 19 ] Then there encompassed it a visitation from your Lord while they were sleeping. | ||
| 20 | [ 68: 20 ] So it became as black, barren land. | ||
| 21 | [ 68: 21 ] And they called out to each other in the morning, | ||
| 22 | [ 68: 22 ] Saying: Go early to your tilth if you would cut ( the produce ). | ||
| 23 | [ 68: 23 ] So they went, while they consulted together secretly, | ||
| 24 | [ 68: 24 ] Saying: No poor man shall enter it today upon you. | ||
| 25 | [ 68: 25 ] And in the morning they went, having the power to prevent. | ||
| 26 | [ 68: 26 ] But when they saw it, they said: Most surely we have gone astray | ||
| 27 | [ 68: 27 ] Nay! we are made to suffer privation. | ||
| 28 | [ 68: 28 ] The best of them said: Did I not say to you, Why do you not glorify ( Allah )? | ||
| 29 | [ 68: 29 ] They said: Glory be to our Lord, surely we were unjust. | ||
| 30 | [ 68: 30 ] Then some of them advanced against others, blaming each other. | ||
| 31 | [ 68: 31 ] Said they: O woe to us! surely we were inordinate: | ||
| 32 | [ 68: 32 ] Maybe, our Lord will give us instead one better than it; surely to our Lord do we make our humble petition. | ||
| 33 | [ 68: 33 ] Such is the chastisement, and certainly the chastisement of the hereafter is greater, did they but know! | ||
| 34 | [ 68: 34 ] Surely those who guard ( against evil ) shall have with their Lord gardens of bliss. | ||
| 35 | [ 68: 35 ] What! shall We then make ( that is, treat ) those who submit as the guilty? | ||
| 36 | [ 68: 36 ] What has happened to you? How do you judge? | ||
| 37 | [ 68: 37 ] Or have you a book wherein you read, | ||
| 38 | [ 68: 38 ] That you have surely therein what you choose? | ||
| 39 | [ 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? | ||
| 40 | [ 68: 40 ] Ask them which of them will vouch for that, | ||
| 41 | [ 68: 41 ] Or have they associates if they are truthful. | ||
| 42 | [ 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, | ||
| 43 | [ 68: 43 ] Their looks cast down, abasement shall overtake them; and they were called upon to make obeisance indeed while yet they were safe. | ||
| 44 | [ 68: 44 ] So leave Me and him who rejects this announcement; We will overtake them by degrees, from whence they perceive not: | ||
| 45 | [ 68: 45 ] And I do bear with them, surely My plan is firm. | ||
| 46 | [ 68: 46 ] Or do you ask from them a reward, so that they are burdened with debt? | ||
| 47 | [ 68: 47 ] Or have they ( the knowledge of ) the unseen, so that they write ( it ) down? | ||
| 48 | [ 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. | ||
| 49 | [ 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. | ||
| 50 | [ 68: 50 ] Then his Lord chose him, and He made him of the good. | ||
| 51 | [ 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. | ||
| 52 | [ 68: 52 ] And it is naught but a reminder to the nations. | ||