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Nun By the pen! By all they write!
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Your Lord's grace does not make you (Prophet) a madman:
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you will have a never-ending reward
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truly you have a strong character
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and soon you will see, as will they,
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which of you is afflicted with madness.
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Your Lord knows best who strays from His path and who is rightly guided.
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So do not yield to those who deny the truth
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they want you to compromise with them and then they will compromise with you
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do not yield to any contemptible swearer,
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to any backbiter, slander-monger,
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or hinderer of good, to anyone who is sinful, aggressive,
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coarse, and on top of all that, an imposter.
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Just because he has wealth and sons,
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when our revelations are recited to him, he says, 'These are just ancient fables.'
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We shall brand him on the snout!
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We have tried them as We tried the owners of a certain garden, who swore that they would harvest its fruits in the morning
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and made no allowance (for the Will of God):
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a disaster from your Lord struck the garden as they slept
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and by morning it was stripped bare, a desolate land.
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Still they called each other at daybreak,
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'Go early to your field if you wish to gather all its fruits,'
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and went off, whispering,
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'Make sure no poor person enters the garden today!'
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they left early, bent on their purpose-
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but when they saw the garden, they said, 'We must have lost our way!
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The wisest of them said, 'Did I not say to you, “Will you not glorify God?”'-
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they said, 'Glory be to God, Our Lord! Truly, we were doing wrong!'-
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and then they turned to each other in mutual reproach.
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