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NUN. I CALL to witness the pen and what they inscribe,
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You are not demented by the grace of your Lord.
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There is surely reward unending for you,
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For you are verily born of sublime nature.
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So you will see, and they will realise,
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Verily your Lord knows those who have gone astray from His path, and He knows those who are guided on the way.
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So do not comply with those who deny:
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They only want that you should relent, so that they may come to terms.
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Do not heed a contemptible swearer,
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Or backbiter, calumniator, slanderer,
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Who hinders men from (doing) good, the transgressor, the iniquitous,
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Crude, and above all, mean and infamous,
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Simply because he possesses wealth and children.
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When you recite Our revelations to him, he says: "These are fables of long ago."
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We shall brand him on the muzzle.
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We have tried you as We tried the owners of the garden when they vowed to gather the fruits in the morning
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But did not add: "If God may please."
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Then a calamity from your Lord fell upon it, but they remained fast asleep.
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So by the morning it seemed as though picked clean.
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At daybreak they called to each other:
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If you want to gather the fruits, let us go early to the plantation.
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So they departed, talking in low voices:
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Let no needy person come to you within it today.
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They left early in the morning bent on this purpose.
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When they saw (and did not recognise it) they said: "Surely we have lost the way.
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No. In fact we have been deprived of it."
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One who was temperate among them, said: "Did I not say: 'Why don't you priase God?'"
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Glory to our Lord, they said; we were really in the wrong."
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Then they started blaming one another,
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