القلم

And they called one another at morning, ^[21]

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

So they set out, while lowering their voices, ^[23]

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

And they went early in determination, [assuming themselves] able. ^[25]

But when they saw it, they said, "Indeed, we are lost; ^[26]

Rather, we have been deprived." ^[27]

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

They said, "Exalted is our Lord! Indeed, we were wrongdoers." ^[29]

Then they approached one another, blaming each other. ^[30]

They said, "O woe to us; indeed we were transgressors. ^[31]

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

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

Indeed, for the righteous with their Lord are the Gardens of Pleasure. ^[34]

Then will We treat the Muslims like the criminals? ^[35]

What is [the matter] with you? How do you judge? ^[36]

Or do you have a scripture in which you learn ^[37]

That indeed for you is whatever you choose? ^[38]

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

Ask them which of them, for that [claim], is responsible. ^[40]