أَنْ لَا يَدْخُلَنَّهَا الْيَوْمَ عَلَيْكُمْ مِسْكِينٌ ٢٤
"Let not a single indigent person break in upon you into the (garden) this day."
أَنْ لَا يَدْخُلَنَّهَا الْيَوْمَ عَلَيْكُمْ مِسْكِينٌ ٢٤
"Let not a single indigent person break in upon you into the (garden) this day."
وَغَدَوْا عَلَىٰ حَرْدٍ قَادِرِينَ ٢٥
And they opened the morning, strong in an (unjust) resolve.
فَلَمَّا رَأَوْهَا قَالُوا إِنَّا لَضَالُّونَ ٢٦
But when they saw the (garden), they said: "We have surely lost our way:
بَلْ نَحْنُ مَحْرُومُونَ ٢٧
"Indeed we are shut out (of the fruits of our labour)!"
قَالَ أَوْسَطُهُمْ أَلَمْ أَقُلْ لَكُمْ لَوْلَا تُسَبِّحُونَ ٢٨
Said one of them, more just (than the rest): "Did I not say to you, 'Why not glorify (Allah)?'"