In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.

"68.1":    Noon. I swear by the pen and what the angels write,

"68.2":    By the grace of your Lord you are not mad.

"68.3":    And most surely you shall have a reward never to be cut off.

"68.4":    And most surely you conform (yourself) to sublime morality.

"68.5":     So you shall see, and they (too) shall see,

"68.6":    Which of you is afflicted with madness.

"68.7":    Surely your Lord best knows him who errs from His way, and He best knows the followers of the right course.

"68.8":    So do not yield to the rejecters.

"68.9":    They wish that you should be pliant so they (too) would be pliant.

"68.10":    And yield not to any mean swearer

"68.11":    Defamer, going about with slander

"68.12":    Forbidder of good, outstepping the limits, sinful,

"68.13":    Ignoble, besides all that, base-born;

"68.14":    Because he possesses wealth and sons.

"68.15":    When Our communications are recited to him, he says: Stories of those of yore.

"68.16":    We will brand him on the nose.

"68.17":    Surely We will try them as We tried the owners of the garden, when they swore that they would certainly cut off the produce in the morning,

"68.18":    And were not willing to set aside a portion (for the poor).

"68.19":    Then there encompassed it a visitation from your Lord while they were sleeping.

"68.20":    So it became as black, barren land.

"68.21":    And they called out to each other in the morning,

"68.22":    Saying: Go early to your tilth if you would cut (the produce).

"68.23":    So they went, while they consulted together secretly,

"68.24":    Saying: No poor man shall enter it today upon you.

"68.25":    And in the morning they went, having the power to prevent.

"68.26":    But when they saw it, they said: Most surely we have gone astray

"68.27":    Nay! we are made to suffer privation.

"68.28":    The best of them said: Did I not say to you, Why do you not glorify (Allah)?

"68.29":    They said: Glory be to our Lord, surely we were unjust.

"68.30":    Then some of them advanced against others, blaming each other.

"68.31":    Said they: O woe to us! surely we were inordinate:

"68.32":    Maybe, our Lord will give us instead one better than it; surely to our Lord do we make our humble petition.

"68.33":    Such is the chastisement, and certainly the chastisement of the hereafter is greater, did they but know!

"68.34":    Surely those who guard (against evil) shall have with their Lord gardens of bliss.

"68.35":    What! shall We then make (i.e. treat) those who submit as the guilty?

"68.36":    What has happened to you? How do you judge?

"68.37":    Or have you a book wherein you read,

"68.38":    That you have surely therein what you choose?

"68.39":    Or have you received from Us an agreement confirmed by an oath extending to the day of resurrection that you shall surely have what you demand?

"68.40":    Ask them which of them will vouch for that,

"68.41":    Or have they associates if they are truthful.

"68.42":    On the day when there shall be a severe affliction, and they shall be called upon to make obeisance, but they shall not be able,

"68.43":    Their looks cast down, abasement shall overtake them; and they were called upon to make obeisance indeed while yet they were safe.

"68.44":    So leave Me and him who rejects this announcement; We will overtake them by degrees, from whence they perceive not:

"68.45":    And I do bear with them, surely My plan is firm.

"68.46":    Or do you ask from them a reward, so that they are burdened with debt?

"68.47":    Or have they (the knowledge of) the unseen, so that they write (it) down?

"68.48":    So wait patiently for the judgment of your Lord, and be not like the companion of the fish, when he cried while he was in distress.

"68.49":    Were it not that favor from his Lord had overtaken him, he would certainly have been cast down upon the naked Found while he was blamed.

"68.50":    Then his Lord chose him, and He made him of the good.

"68.51":    And those who disbelieve would almost smite you with their eyes when they hear the reminder, and they say: Most surely he is mad.

"68.52":    And it is naught but a reminder to the nations.