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(I) 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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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 l
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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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