فَلَا تُطِعِ ٱلۡمُكَذِّبِينَ
(68:8) Do not, then, yield to those who reject the Truth, decrying it as
false;
false;
وَدُّواْ لَوۡ تُدۡهِنُ فَيُدۡهِنُونَ
(68:9) they would wish you to be pliant so that they too may be pliant.5
وَلَا تُطِعۡ كُلَّ حَلَّافٖ مَّهِينٍ
(68:10) And do not yield to any contemptible swearer,6
هَمَّازٖ مَّشَّآءِۭ بِنَمِيمٖ
(68:11) the fault-finder who goes around slandering,
مَّنَّاعٖ لِّلۡخَيۡرِ مُعۡتَدٍ أَثِيمٍ
(68:12) the hinderer of good,7 the transgressor, the sinful;8
عُتُلِّۭ بَعۡدَ ذَٰلِكَ زَنِيمٍ
(68:13) the coarse-grained, and above all mean and ignoble;9
أَن كَانَ ذَا مَالٖ وَبَنِينَ
(68:14) (who so acts) simply because he has wealth and sons,0
إِذَا تُتۡلَىٰ عَلَيۡهِ ءَايَٰتُنَا قَالَ أَسَٰطِيرُ ٱلۡأَوَّلِينَ
(68:15) and whenever Our verses are rehearsed to him, he says: “These are
fairy- tales of times gone by.”
fairy- tales of times gone by.”