68-1 : Nun. By the pen and what they inscribe,

68-2 : You are not, [O muhammad], by the favor of your Lord, a madman.

68-3 : And indeed, for you is a reward uninterrupted.

68-4 : And indeed, you are of a great moral character.

68-5 : So you will see and they will see

68-6 : Which of you is the afflicted [by a devil].

68-7 : Indeed, your Lord is most knowing of who has gone astray from His way, and He is most knowing of the [rightly] guided.

68-8 : Then do not obey the deniers.

68-9 : They wish that you would soften [in your position], so they would soften [toward you].

68-10 : And do not obey every worthless habitual swearer

68-11 : [And] scorner, going about with malicious gossip -

68-12 : A preventer of good, transgressing and sinful,

68-13 : Cruel, moreover, and an illegitimate pretender.

68-14 : Because he is a possessor of wealth and children,

68-15 : When Our verses are recited to him, he says, "Legends of the former peoples."

68-16 : We will brand him upon the snout.

68-17 : Indeed, We have tried them as We tried the companions of the garden, when they swore to cut its fruit in the [early] morning

68-18 : Without making exception.

68-19 : So there came upon the garden an affliction from your Lord while they were asleep.

68-20 : And it became as though reaped.

68-21 : And they called one another at morning,

68-22 : [Saying], "Go early to your crop if you would cut the fruit."

68-23 : So they set out, while lowering their voices,

68-24 : [Saying], "There will surely not enter it today upon you [any] poor person."

68-25 : And they went early in determination, [assuming themselves] able.

68-26 : But when they saw it, they said, "Indeed, we are lost;

68-27 : Rather, we have been deprived."

68-28 : The most moderate of them said, "Did I not say to you, 'Why do you not exalt [Allah]?' "

68-29 : They said, "Exalted is our Lord! Indeed, we were wrongdoers."

68-30 : Then they approached one another, blaming each other.

68-31 : They said, "O woe to us; indeed we were transgressors.

68-32 : Perhaps our Lord will substitute for us [one] better than it. Indeed, we are toward our Lord desirous."

68-33 : Such is the punishment [of this world]. And the punishment of the Hereafter is greater, if they only knew.

68-34 : Indeed, for the righteous with their Lord are the Gardens of Pleasure.

68-35 : Then will We treat the Muslims like the criminals?

68-36 : What is [the matter] with you? How do you judge?

68-37 : Or do you have a scripture in which you learn

68-38 : That indeed for you is whatever you choose?

68-39 : Or do you have oaths [binding] upon Us, extending until the Day of Resurrection, that indeed for you is whatever you judge?

68-40 : Ask them which of them, for that [claim], is responsible.

68-41 : Or do they have partners? Then let them bring their partners, if they should be truthful.

68-42 : The Day the shin will be uncovered and they are invited to prostration but the disbelievers will not be able,

68-43 : Their eyes humbled, humiliation will cover them. And they used to be invited to prostration while they were sound.

68-44 : So leave Me, [O muhammad], with [the matter of] whoever denies the Qur'an. We will progressively lead them [to punishment] from where they do not know.

68-45 : And I will give them time. Indeed, My plan is firm.

68-46 : Or do you ask of them a payment, so they are by debt burdened down?

68-47 : Or have they [knowledge of] the unseen, so they write [it] down?

68-48 : Then be patient for the decision of your Lord, [O muhammad], and be not like the companion of the fish when he called out while he was distressed.

68-49 : If not that a favor from his Lord overtook him, he would have been thrown onto the naked shore while he was censured.

68-50 : And his Lord chose him and made him of the righteous.

68-51 : And indeed, those who disbelieve would almost make you slip with their eyes when they hear the message, and they say, "Indeed, he is mad."

68-52 : But it is not except a reminder to the worlds.