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نٓۚ
noon
Nun
وَٱلۡقَلَمِ
wal-qalami
By the pen
وَمَا
wama
and what
يَسۡطُرُونَ
yasturuna
they write
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Nun By the pen! By all they write
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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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