[25] VERSES 17 – 33 إِنَّا بَلَوْنَاهُمْ كَمَا بَلَوْنَا...

[25] VERSES 17 – 33 إِنَّا بَلَوْنَاهُمْ كَمَا بَلَوْنَا أَصْحَابَ الْجَنَّةِ إِذْ أَقْسَمُوا لَيَصْرِمُنَّهَا مُصْبِحِينَ {17} Surely, We will Try them just as We Tried the owners of the garden, when they swore that they would be plucking its fruit in the morning [68:17] وَلَا يَسْتَثْنُونَ {18} And not be leaving anything [68:18] فَطَافَ عَلَيْهَا طَائِفٌ مِنْ رَبِّكَ وَهُمْ نَائِمُونَ {19} So there visited upon it a visitation from your Lord, and they were sleeping [68:19] فَأَصْبَحَتْ كَالصَّرِيمِ {20} So in the morning it was like the reaped [68:20] فَتَنَادَوْا مُصْبِحِينَ {21} And they called out to each other in the morning [68:21] أَنِ اغْدُوا عَلَىٰ حَرْثِكُمْ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ صَارِمِينَ {22} Saying, ‘Go early to your farm if you want to harvest’ [68:22] فَانْطَلَقُوا وَهُمْ يَتَخَافَتُونَ {23} So they went and they were murmuring, [68:23] أَنْ لَا يَدْخُلَنَّهَا الْيَوْمَ عَلَيْكُمْ مِسْكِينٌ {24} ‘No poor one would be entering it today upon you’ [68:24] وَغَدَوْا عَلَىٰ حَرْدٍ قَادِرِينَ {25} And they went early morning upon a determination, powerful [68:25] فَلَمَّا رَأَوْهَا قَالُوا إِنَّا لَضَالُّونَ {26} But when they saw it, they said, ‘We are lost.

[68:26] بَلْ نَحْنُ مَحْرُومُونَ {27} But, we are deprived!’ [68:27] قَالَ أَوْسَطُهُمْ أَلَمْ أَقُلْ لَكُمْ لَوْلَا تُسَبِّحُونَ {28} Their most moderate of them said, ‘Did I not say to you all, ‘Why don’t you Glorify (Allah)?’’ [68:28] قَالُوا سُبْحَانَ رَبِّنَا إِنَّا كُنَّا ظَالِمِينَ {29} They said, Glory be to our Lord! Surely we were unjust’.

[68:29] فَأَقْبَلَ بَعْضُهُمْ عَلَىٰ بَعْضٍ يَتَلَاوَمُونَ {30} Then some of them faced towards others, blaming each other [68:30] قَالُوا يَا وَيْلَنَا إِنَّا كُنَّا طَاغِينَ {31} They said, ‘O woe be unto us! Surely, we were transgressors’. [68:31] عَسَىٰ رَبُّنَا أَنْ يُبْدِلَنَا خَيْرًا مِنْهَا إِنَّا إِلَىٰ رَبِّنَا رَاغِبُونَ {32} Perhaps our Lord will Replace for us better than it.