9 They wish that thou shouldst be pliant, so they (too) would be pliant. |
10 And obey not any mean swearer, |
11 Defamer, going about with slander, |
12 Hinderer of good, outstepping the limits, sinful, |
13 Ignoble, besides all that, notoriously mischievous — |
14 Because he possesses wealth and sons. |
15 When Our messages are recited to him, he says: Stories of those of yore! |
16 We shall brand him on the snout. |
17 We shall try them as We tried the owners of the garden, when they swore to pluck its fruits in the morning, |
18 And would not set aside a portion (for the poor). |
19 But a visitation from thy Lord came on it, while they slept. |
20 So it became as black, barren land — |
21 Then they called out one to another in the morning, |
22 Saying: Go early to your tilth, if you would pluck (the fruit). |
23 So they went, while they said one to another in low tones: |
24 No poor man shall enter it today upon you. |
25 And in the morning they went, having the power to prevent. |
26 But when they saw it, they said: Surely we are in error; |
27 Nay, we are made to suffer privation. |
28 The best of them said: Said I not to you, Why do you not glorify (Allāh)? |
29 They said: Glory be to our Lord! surely we were unjust. |
30 Then some of them advanced against others, blaming each other. |
31 Said they: O woe to us! Surely we were inordinate — |
32 Maybe, our Lord will give us instead one better than it — surely to our Lord we make petition. |
33 Such is the chastisement. And certainly the chastisement of the Hereafter is greater, did they but know! |