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slanderer, gossip-monger,

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withholder of good, transgressor, evildoer,

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brute, and—on top of all that—an illegitimate child.

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Now, ˹simply˺ because he has been blessed with ˹abundant˺ wealth and children,

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whenever Our revelations are recited to him, he says, “Ancient fables!”

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We will soon mark his snout.1 

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Indeed, We have tested those ˹Meccans˺ as We tested the owners of the garden—when they swore they would surely harvest ˹all˺ its fruit in the early morning,

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leaving no thought for Allah’s Will.1

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Then it was struck by a torment from your Lord while they slept,

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so it was reduced to ashes.

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