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In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
- But when they saw the (garden) they said: "We have surely lost our way:
- "Indeed we are shut out (of the fruits of our labor)!"
- Said one of them more just (than the rest): "Did I not say to you `Why not glorify (Allah)?' "
- They said: "Glory to our Lord! Verily we have been doing wrong!"
- Then they turned one against another in reproach.
- They said: "Alas for us! We have indeed transgressed!
- "It may be that our Lord will give us in exchange a better (garden) than this: for we do turn to Him (in repentance)!"
- Such is the Punishment (in this life); but greater is the Punishment in the Hereafter if only they knew!
- Verily for the righteous are Gardens of Delight in the Presence of their Lord.
- Shall We then treat the People of Faith like the People of Sin?
- What is the matter with you? How judge ye?
- Or have ye a Book through which ye learn
- That ye shall have through it whatever ye choose?
- Or have ye Covenants with Us on oath reaching to the Day of Judgment (providing) that ye shall have whatever ye shall demand?
- Ask thou of them which of them will stand surety of that!
- Or have they some "Partners" (in Allah)? Then let them produce their "partners" if they are truthful!
- The Day that the shin shall be laid bare and they shall be summoned to bow in adoration but they shall not be able
- Their eyes will be cast down ignominy will cover them; seeing that they had been summoned aforetime to bow in adoration while they were whole (and had refused).
- Then leave Me alone with such as reject this message: by degrees shall We punish them from directions they perceive not.
- A (long) respite will I grant them: truly powerful is My plan.
- Or is it that thou dost ask them for a reward so that they are burdened with a load of debt?
- Or that they Unseen is in their hands so that they can write it down?
- So wait with patience for the command of thy Lord and be not like the Companion of the Fish when he cried out in agony.
- Had not Grace from His Lord reached him he would indeed have been cast off on the naked shore in disgrace.
- Thus did his Lord choose him and make him of the company of the Righteous.
- And the Unbelievers would almost trip thee up with their eyes when they hear the message; and they say: "Surely he is possessed!"
- But it is nothing less than a Message to all the worlds.
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