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and who has remained on the quick to reach your orchard, if
true path. you want to gather all your fruits.’
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Do not give in to the deniers So they went off, whispering
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of truth. They want you to make to one another, 24 ‘Be sure to
concessions to them and then stop any poor person from
they will reciprocate. 10 Do not entering the orchard today.’
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yield to any contemptible swearer They set out early in the
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of oaths, or to any defamer or morning, thinking they had the
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one who spreads slander, or to power to prevent. 26 But when
one who places obstacles in the they saw it, they said, ‘We must
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have lost our way. Indeed, we
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wicked transgressor, 13 who is are utterly ruined!’ The more
ignoble and besides all that, base- upright of the two said, ‘Did I
born; 14 just because he has not bid you to glorify God?’
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wealth and sons, 15 when Our They said, ‘Glory be to God,
revelations are recited to him, he our Lord. We have surely done
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wrong.’
Then they began to
says, ‘These are just ancient
fables.’ 16 Soon We will brand heap reproaches on each other.
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him on the nose. They said, ‘Alas for us, our
17 We have tried them as we behaviour was beyond the pale.
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May be our Lord will give us
tried the owners of a certain a better orchard in its stead; we
orchard, who vowed to harvest turn to Him.’ 33 Such was their
all its fruits the next morning, punishment, [in this life]. But
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and made no allowance [for the punishment of the life to
the will of God]. 19 A calamity come is much more severe, if
from your Lord befell the orchard only they knew it!
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as they slept. And by morning 34 Those who are mindful of
it lay as if it had already been their Lord will be rewarded with
harvested, a barren land. 21 So gardens of bliss. 35 Should We
they called out to each other at treat the true believers and the
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the break of dawn, saying, ‘Be wrongdoers alike? 36 What ails