1. Nun. By the Pen and by the (Record) which (men) write,-
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2. You are not, by the grace of your Lord, mad or possessed.
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3. Nay, verily for you is a Reward unfailing:
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4. And you (stand) on an exalted standard of character.
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5. Soon will you see, and they will see,
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6. Which of you is afflicted with madness?
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7. Verily it is your Lord that knows best, which (among men) have strayed from His Path: and He knows best those who receive (true) Guidance.
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8. So hearken not to, those who deny (the Truth).
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9. Their desire is that you should be pliant: so would they be pliant.
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10. Do not heed the type of despicable men, - ready with oaths,
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11. A slanderer, going about with calumnies,
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12. (Habitually) hindering (all) good, transgressing beyond bounds, deep in sin,
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13. Violent (and cruel), - with all that, base-born,
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14. Because he possesses wealth and (numerous) sons.
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15. When to him are rehearsed Our Signs, he cries! "Tales of the Ancients."
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16. Soon shall We brand (the beast) on the snout!
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17. Verily We have tried them as We tried the People of the Garden, when they resolved to gather the fruits of the (garden) in the morning,
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18. But made no reservation, ("if it be Allah's Will").
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19. Then there came on the (garden) a visitation from your Lord, (which swept away) all around, while they were asleep.
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20. So the (garden) became, by the morning, 'like a dark and desolate spot, (whose fruit had been gathered).
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21. As the morning broke; they called out, one to another,
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22. "You go to your tilth (betimes) in the morning, if you would gather the fruits."
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23. So they departed, conversing in secret low tones, (saying)
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24. "Let not a single indigent person breaks in upon you into the (garden) this day."
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25. And they opened the morning, strong in an (unjust) resolve.
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26. But when they saw the (garden), they said: "We have surely lost our way:
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27. "Indeed we are shut out (of the fruits of our labor)!"
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28. Said one of them, more just (then the rest): "Did I not say to you, 'Why not glorify (Allah)?'"
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29. They said: "Glory to our Lord! Verily we have been doing wrong!"
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30. Then they turned, one against another, in reproach.
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31. They said: "Alas "for us! We have indeed transgressed!
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32. "It may be that our Lord will give us in exchange a better (garden) than this: for we do turn to Him (in repentance)!"
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33. Such is the Punishment (in this life); but greater is the Punishment in the Hereafter, - if only they knew!
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