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Noon. I swear by the pen and what the angels write,
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By the grace of your Lord you are not mad.
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And most surely you shall have a reward never to be cutoff.
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And most surely you conform (yourself) to sublimemorality.
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So you shall see, and they (too) shall see,
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Which of you is afflicted with madness.
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Surely your Lord best knows him who errs from His way,and He best knows the followers of the right course.
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So do not yield to the rejecters.
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They wish that you should be pliant so they (too) wouldbe pliant.
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And yield not to any mean swearer
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Defamer, going about with slander
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Forbidder of good, outstepping the limits, sinful,
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Ignoble, besides all that, base-born;
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Because he possesses wealth and sons.
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When Our communications are recited to him, he says:Stories of those of yore.
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We will brand him on the nose.
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Surely We will try them as We tried the owners of thegarden, when they swore that they would certainly cut offthe produce in the morning,
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And were not willing to set aside a portion (for thepoor).
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Then there encompassed it a visitation from your Lordwhile they were sleeping.
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So it became as black, barren land.
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And they called out to each other in the morning,
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Saying: Go early to your tilth if you would cut (theproduce).
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So they went, while they consulted together secretly,
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Saying: No poor man shall enter it today upon you.
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And in the morning they went, having the power toprevent.
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But when they saw it, they said: Most surely we havegone astray
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Nay! we are made to suffer privation.
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The best of them said: Did I not say to you, Why do younot glorify (Allah)?
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They said: Glory be to our Lord, surely we were unjust.
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Then some of them advanced against others, blaming eachother.
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