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[1] WOE UNTO THOSE who give short measure:
[2] those who, when they are to receive their due from [other] people, demand that it be given in full –
[3] but when they have to measure or weigh whatever they owe to others, give less than what is due!
[4] Do they not know that they are bound to be raised from the dead
[5] [and called to account] on an awesome Day –
[6] the Day when all men shall stand before the Sustainer of all the worlds?
[7] NAY, VERILY, the record of the wicked is indeed [set down] in a mode inescapable!
[8] And what could make thee conceive what that that mode inescapable will be?
[9] A record [indelibly] inscribed!
[10] Woe on that Day unto those who give the lie to the truth –
[11] those who give the lie to the [coming of] Judgment Day:
[12] for, none gives the lie to it but such as are wont to transgress against all that is [and are] immersed in sin:
[13] [and so,] whenever Our messages are conveyed to them, they but say, "Fables of ancient times!"
[14] Nay, but their hearts are corroded by all [the evil] that they were wont to do!
[15] Nay, verily, from [the grace of] their Sustainer shall they on that Day be debarred;
[16] and then, behold, they shall enter the blazing fire
[17] and be told: "This is the [very thing] to which you were wont to give the lie!"
[18] NAY, VERILY - the record of the truly virtuous is [set down] in a mode most lofty!
[19] And what could make thee conceive what that mode most lofty will be?
[20] A record [indelibly] inscribed,
[21] witnessed~ by all who have [ever] been drawn close unto God.
[22] Behold, [in the life to come] the truly virtuous will indeed be in bliss:
[23] [resting on couches, they will look up [to God]:
[24] upon their faces thou wilt see the brightness of bliss.
[25] They will be given a drink of pure wine whereon the seal [of God] will have been set,
[26] pouring forth with a fragrance of musk. To that [wine of paradise], then, let all such aspire as [are willing to] aspire to things of high account:
[27] for it is composed of all that is most exalting
[28] a source [of bliss] whereof those who are drawn close unto God shall drink.
[29] BEHOLD, those who have abandoned themselves to sin are wont to laugh at such as have attained to faith
[30] and whenever they pass by them, they wink at one another [derisively];
[31] and whenever they return to people of their own kind, they return full of jests;
[32] and whenever they see those [who believe,] they say, "Behold, these [people] have indeed gone astray!"
[33] And, withal, they have no call to watch over [the beliefs of] others...
[34] But on the Day [of Judgment], they who had attained to faith will [be able to] laugh at the [erstwhile] deniers of the truth:
[35] [for, resting in paradise] on couches, they will look on [and say to themselves]:
[36] "Are these deniers of the truth being [thus] requited for [aught but] what they were wont to do?"