Nun. By the Pen and what they write with it line by line.

You are not, by the grace of your Lord, a madman.

And yours for sure is a reward constant and beyond measure.

You are surely of a sublime character and do act by a sublime pattern of conduct.

Soon you will see and they will see

Which of you is afflicted with madness.

Surely your Lord is He Who knows best who is astray from His way, and He knows best those who are rightly guided.

So pay no heed to (the desires of) those who persistently deny (God’s Message).

Downcast will be their eyes, with abasement overwhelming them. Assuredly they were called to prostrate while they were yet safe and whole (in this world, but they did not).

So leave Me with such as deny this Word (the Qur’an). We will lead them on to perdition step by step from where they do not know.

But I grant respite to them (so that they may mend their ways). My scheme (all that is willed for them) is firm and unfailing.

Or is it that you ask them for a wage (in return for your calling them to Our Word), and so they are weighed down with debt?

Or is the Unseen within their reach that they write down (prescribing and stipulating what is to come, and how they are to be judged)?

So wait patiently for your Lord’s judgment, and do not be like the companion of the fish, when he called out choking inwardly (with distress).

If there had not reached him grace from his Lord (Who accepted his repentance), he would indeed have been cast forth on the desert shore, being reproached.

But his Lord chose him and enabled him to be among the specially chosen, righteous servants.

Those who disbelieve would (if they could) strike you down with their looks because of hatred and enmity, when they hear the Reminder, and they say: &quot

But it is not other than a Reminder for all beings.