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068.027 "Indeed we are shut out (of the fruits of our labour)!"
068.028 Said one of them, more just (than the rest): "Did I not say to you, 'Why not glorify (God)?'"
068.029 They said: "Glory to our Lord! Verily we have been doing wrong!"
068.030 Then they turned, one against another, in reproach.
068.031 They said: "Alas for us! We have indeed transgressed!
068.032 "It may be that our Lord will give us in exchange a better (garden) than this: for we do turn to Him (in
repentance)!"
068.033 Such is the Punishment (in this life); but greater is the Punishment in the Hereafter,- if only they knew!
068.034 Verily, for the Righteous, are Gardens of Delight, in the Presence of their Lord.
068.035 Shall We then treat the People of Faith like the People of Sin?
068.036 What is the matter with you? How judge ye?
068.037 Or have ye a book through which ye learn-
068.038 That ye shall have, through it whatever ye choose?
068.039 Or have ye Covenants with Us to oath, reaching to the Day of Judgment, (providing) that ye shall have whatever
ye shall demand?
068.040 Ask thou of them, which of them will stand surety for that!
068.041 Or have they some "Partners" (in Godhead)? Then let them produce their "partners", if they are truthful!
068.042 The Day that the shin shall be laid bare, and they shall be summoned to bow in adoration, but they shall not
be able,-
068.043 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).
068.044 Then leave Me alone with such as reject this Message: by degrees shall We punish them from directions they
perceive not.
068.045 A (long) respite will I grant them: truly powerful is My Plan.
068.046 Or is it that thou dost ask them for a reward, so that they are burdened with a load of debt?-
068.047 Or that the Unseen is in their hands, so that they can write it down?
068.048 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.
068.049 Had not Grace from his Lord reached him, he would indeed have been cast off on the naked shore, in disgrace.
068.050 Thus did his Lord choose him and make him of the Company of the Righteous.
068.051 And the Unbelievers would almost trip thee up with their eyes when they hear the Message; and they say:
"Surely he is possessed!"
068.052 But it is nothing less than a Message to all the worlds.
THE REALITY, CHAPTER NO. 069
069.001 The Sure Reality!
069.002 What is the Sure Reality?
069.003 And what will make thee realise what the Sure Reality is?
069.004 The Thamud and the 'Ad People (branded) as false the Stunning Calamity!
069.005 But the Thamud,- they were destroyed by a terrible Storm of thunder and lightning!
069.006 And the 'Ad, they were destroyed by a furious Wind, exceedingly violent;
069.007 He made it rage against them seven nights and eight days in succession: so that thou couldst see the (whole)
people lying prostrate in its (path), as they had been roots of hollow palm-trees tumbled down!
069.008 Then seest thou any of them left surviving?
069.009 And Pharaoh, and those before him, and the Cities Overthrown, committed habitual Sin.
069.010 And disobeyed (each) the apostle of their Lord; so He punished them with an abundant Penalty.
069.011 We, when the water (of Noah's Flood) overflowed beyond its limits, carried you (mankind), in the floating
(Ark),
069.012 That We might make it a Message unto you, and that ears (that should hear the tale and) retain its memory