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21. Or who is he that will provide for you if He should withhold His providence? Nay, but they are set in pride and
frowardness.
22. Is he who goeth groping on his face more rightly guided, or he who walketh upright on a beaten road?
23. Say (unto them, O Muhammad): He it is Who gave you being, and hath assigned unto you ears and eyes and hearts.
Small thanks give ye!
24. Say, He it is Who multiplieth you in the earth, and unto Whom ye will be gathered.
25. And they say: When (will) this promise (be fulfilled), if ye are truthful?
26. Say: The knowledge is with Allah only, and I am but a plain warner;
27. But when they see it nigh, the faces of those who disbelieve will be awry, and it will be said (unto them): This is
that for which ye used to call.
28. Say (O Muhammad): Have ye thought: Whether Allah causeth me (Muhammad) and those with me to perish or hath
mercy on us, still, who will protect the disbelievers from a painful doom?
29. Say: He is the Beneficent. In Him we believe and in Him we put our trust. And ye will soon know who it is that is
in error manifest.
30. Say: Have ye thought: If (all) your water were to disappear into the earth, who then could bring you gushing water?
Surah 68. Al-Qalam
1. Nun. By the pen and that which they write (therewith),
2. Thou art not, for thy Lord's favour unto thee, a madman.
3. And lo! thine verily will he a reward unfailing.
4. And lo! thou art of a tremendous nature.
5. And thou wilt see and they will see
6. Which of you is the demented.
7. Lo! thy Lord is best aware of him who strayeth from his way, and He is best aware of those who walk aright.
8. Therefor obey not thou the rejecters
9. Who would have had thee compromise, that they may compromise.
10. Neither obey thou each feeble oath monger,
11. Detractor, spreader abroad of slanders?
12. Hinderer of the good, transgressor, malefactor
13. Greedy therewithal, intrusive.
14. It is because he is possessed of wealth and children
15. That, when Our revelations are recited unto him, he saith: Mere fables of the men of old.
16. We shall brand him on the nose.
17. Lo! we have tried them as We tried the owners of the garden when they vowed they would pluck its fruit next
morning.
18. And made no exception (for the will of Allah);
19. Then a visitation came upon it while they slept
20. And in the morning it was as if plucked.
21. And they cried out one unto another in the morning,
22. Saying: Run unto your field if ye would pluck (the fruit).
23. So they went off, saying one unto another in low tones:
24. No needy man shall enter it today against you.
25. They went betimes, strong in (this) purpose.
26. But when they saw it, they said: Lo! we are in error!
27. Nay, but we are desolate!
28. The best among them said: Said I not unto you: Why glorify ye not (Allah)?
29. They said: Glorified be our Lord! Lo! we have been wrong doers.
30. Then some of them drew near unto others, self reproaching.
31. They said: Alas for us! In truth we were outrageous.
32. It may be that our Lord will give us better than this in place thereof. Lo! we beseech our Lord.
