N]n! By the pen and what they inscribe:
Thou art not, by the divine blessing of thy Lord, one who is possessed.
And, truly, there is for thee certainly, compensation, that which is unfailing.
And, truly, thou art of sublime morals.
Thou wilt perceive and they will perceive
which of you is the one who is demented.
Truly, thy Lord, He is greater in knowledge of whoever went astray from His Way and He is greater in knowledge of ones who are truly guided.
Then, obey not ones who deny.
They wished that thou wouldst compromise with them and they would compromise with thee.
But obey thou not every worthless swearer, defamer,
one who goes about with slander, slandering,
who delays good, a sinful, exceeder of limits,
cruel and after that, ignoble,
because he had been possessor of wealth and children.
When Our signs are recounted to him, he said: Fables of the ancient ones!
We will mark him on the snout!
Truly, We tried them as We tried the Companions of the Garden when they swore an oath that they would pluck fruit, in that which is happening in the morning.
They make no exception by saying if God wills.
Then, a visitation from thy Lord visited it while they were ones who sleep,
in that which is happening in the morning, it was like a plucked garden!
And they called to one another in that which is morning:
Set forth in the early morning dawn to your cultivation if you had been ones who pluck fruit.
So they set out and they whisper, saying:
There will, truly, not enter it today on you any needy person.
And they set forth in the early morning, designing, assuming they were ones who have the power.
But when they saw it, they said: We are, certainly, ones who go astray!
Nay! We are ones who are deprived.
The most moderate of them said: Say I not to you: Why glorify you not God?
They said: Glory be to God, our Lord! Truly, we had been ones who are unjust.
Then, they came forward, some with some others blaming one another.
They said: O woe be to us! Truly, we had been ones who are defiant.
Perhaps our Lord will cause to exchange for us better than it. Truly, we are ones who quest our Lord.
Thus, this is the punishment of this present life, but the punishment of the world to come is greater, if they had been knowing!
Truly, for ones who are Godfearing are Gardens of Bliss with their Lord.
Will We make ones who submit to God as ones who sin?
What is the matter with you? How you give judgment!
Or have you a Book by which you study
that you will have in it whatever you specify?
Or are there oaths from Us, ones that reach through to the Day of Resurrection providing that you will have what you yourselves give as judgment?
Ask them, then, which of them will be a guarantor for that.
Or have they ones they ascribe as associate with God? Then, let them approach with their ascribed associates if they had been ones who are sincere.
On a Day the great calamity will be uncovered and they will be called to prostration, then, they will not be able to do so.
Their sight will be that which is humbled. Abasement will come over them and they had before this been called to prostration while they were ones who are healthy.
So forsake Me and whoever denies this discourse. We will draw them on gradually from where they know not
and I will grant indulgence to them. Truly, My cunning is sure.
Or hast thou asked them for a compensation, so that they would be weighed down from something owed?
Or have they knowledge of the unseen with them so that they write it down?
So be thou patient until the determination of thy Lord and be not like the Companion of the Great Fish when he cried out, one who is suppressed by grief.
If a divine blessing not followed him one after another, from His Lord he would be cast forth on the naked shore while he was one who is condemned.
But his Lord elected him and made him among the ones in accord with morality.
It was almost as if those who were ungrateful looked at thee sternly with their sight when they heard the Remembrance, and they say: He is one who is possessed!
And it is, certainly, not but a Remembrance to the worlds.