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Say, 'Have you considered if your water were to sink into the ground, who could then bring you flowing water?'
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Nun By the pen, and all that they write!
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By the grace of your Lord, you are not a mad man.
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Most surely, you will have a never ending reward.
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For you are truly of a sublime character.
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Soon you will see, as will they,
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which of you is a prey to madness.
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Your Lord knows best who has fallen by the wayside, and who has remained on the true path.
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Do not give in to the deniers of truth.
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They want you to make concessions to them and then they will reciprocate.
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Do not yield to any contemptible swearer of oaths,
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or to any defamer or one who spreads slander,
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or to one who places obstacles in the way of good being done or to the wicked transgressor,
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who is ignoble and besides all that, baseborn;
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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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Soon We will brand him on the nose.
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We have tried them as we tried the owners of a certain orchard, who vowed to harvest all its fruits the next morning,
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without saying, 'If it be God's will.'
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A calamity from your Lord befell the orchard as they slept.
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And by morning it lay as if it had already been harvested, a barren land.
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So they called out to each other at the break of dawn,
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saying, 'Be quick to reach your orchard, if you want to gather all your fruits.'
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So they went off, whispering to one another,
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'Be sure to stop any poor person from entering the orchard today.'
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They set out early in the morning, thinking they had the power to prevent.
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But when they saw it, they said, 'We must have lost our way.
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Indeed, we are utterly ruined!'
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The more upright of the two said, 'Did I not bid you to glorify God?'
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They said, 'Glory be to God, our Lord. We have surely done wrong.'
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