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Nün. By the pen and what they write.[1] By the grace of your Rabb you are not a madman,[2] and you shall have a never ending reward.[3] You are of the highest noble character.[4] Soon you will see - as they will see[5] - which of you is afflicted with madness.[6] Surely it is your Rabb Who knows those who have strayed from His Way, as He knows best those who are rightly guided.[7] So do not yield to the unbelievers.[8] They desire you to compromise a little, so they too would compromise.[9] Neither yield to any mean oath-monger,[10] mischief making slanderer,[11] opponent of good, transgressor,[12] wicked oppressor, and above all, ignoble by birth,[13] though he be possessing wealth and children.[14] When Our revelations are recited to him , he says: “They are nothing but the tales of the ancients."[15] Soon We shall brand him on the snout.[16]

Surely We shall try them as We tried the owners of the garden when they swore that they would pluck its fruit the next morning,[17] without adding any reservation ( such as God willing).[18] So a calamity from your Rabb came down upon it while they slept,[19] and by the morning it lay as if it had been already harvested.[20] At daybreak they called out to one another,[21] saying: “Go out early to your crop, if you want to pick its fruit."[22] So they went, whispering to one another:[23] “Let no needy person enter upon you in the garden today."[24] Thus they went out, fixed in their stingy resolve (not to give any fruit to the poor people, as if they had the full control over harvesting the fruit).[25] But when they saw the garden, they cried: “Surely we must have lost our way![26] Nay, we have become destitute."[27] The most upright among them said: “Did I not tell you to glorify Allah? Why did you not glorify Him?”[28] Then they said: “Glory be to our Rabb! Surely we were unjust,"[29] and they started blaming one another.[30] Finally they said: “Woe to us! Surely we had become rebellious.[31] It may be that our Rabb will give us in exchange a better garden than this: surely to our Rabb do we make our humble petition."[32] Such is the punishment in this life; but the punishment in the Hereafter is even greater, if they but knew it.[33]

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Surely the righteous will be rewarded with gardens of delight by their Rabb.[34] What do the disbelievers think? Shall We treat the Muslims as We treat the guilty?[35] What is the matter with you? What kind of Judgment do you make?[36] Or do you have a Book in which you read,[37] that you shall be given whatever you choose?[38] Or do you have a sworn covenant - a covenant binding on Us till the Day of Resurrection - that you shall have whatever you demand?[39] Ask if any of them will vouch for that.[40] Or do they have other gods who could help them against Allah? If so, let them produce their other gods if they are truthful.[41] On the Day of Judgment, when the dreadful events shall be unfolded, and they shall be asked to prostrate themselves, they shall not be able to do so.[42] They shall stand with eyes downcast, utterly humbled; because during their safe and sound earthly life they were called upon to prostrate themselves but they refused to do so.[43]

O Prophet, leave to Me those who reject this revelation. We shall lead them step by step to their ruin, in ways that they cannot perceive.[44] I shall even put up with them for a while; for My plan is fool proof.[45] Or have you, O Prophet, demanded a compensation from them, that they are overburdened with debt?[46] Or do they have the knowledge of the unseen and they are writing it down?[47] So wait with patience for the Judgment of your Rabb and be not like the man of the fish (reference is to the Prophet Jonah who was swallowed by a whale), who cried when he was in distress[48] Had his Rabb not bestowed on him His grace, he would certainly have been cast off on the naked shore, while he was condemned.[49] But his Rabb chose him and included him among the righteous.[50] The unbelievers would almost trip you up with their eyes when they hear Our revelations (The Qur’an), and say: “He (Muhammad) is surely crazy."[51] This (The Qur’an) is nothing but a Reminder to all the people of the world.[52]