68 : 1
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ نٓ ۚ وَٱلْقَلَمِ وَمَا يَسْطُرُونَ
Ahmed Ali
NUN. I CALL to witness the pen and what they inscribe,
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سُورَةُ القَلَمِ
Al-Qalam · 52 verses
68 : 2
مَآ أَنتَ بِنِعْمَةِ رَبِّكَ بِمَجْنُونٍۢ
Ahmed Ali
You are not demented by the grace of your Lord.
68 : 3
وَإِنَّ لَكَ لَأَجْرًا غَيْرَ مَمْنُونٍۢ
Ahmed Ali
There is surely reward unending for you,
68 : 4
وَإِنَّكَ لَعَلَىٰ خُلُقٍ عَظِيمٍۢ
Ahmed Ali
For you are verily born of sublime nature.
68 : 5
فَسَتُبْصِرُ وَيُبْصِرُونَ
Ahmed Ali
So you will see, and they will realise,
68 : 6
بِأَييِّكُمُ ٱلْمَفْتُونُ
Ahmed Ali
Who is distracted.
68 : 7
إِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِمَن ضَلَّ عَن سَبِيلِهِۦ وَهُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِٱلْمُهْتَدِينَ
Ahmed Ali
Verily your Lord knows those who have gone astray from His path, and He knows those who are guided on the way.
68 : 8
فَلَا تُطِعِ ٱلْمُكَذِّبِينَ
Ahmed Ali
So do not comply with those who deny:
68 : 9
وَدُّوا۟ لَوْ تُدْهِنُ فَيُدْهِنُونَ
Ahmed Ali
They only want that you should relent, so that they may come to terms.
68 : 10
وَلَا تُطِعْ كُلَّ حَلَّافٍۢ مَّهِينٍ
Ahmed Ali
Do not heed a contemptible swearer,
68 : 11
هَمَّازٍۢ مَّشَّآءٍۭ بِنَمِيمٍۢ
Ahmed Ali
Or backbiter, calumniator, slanderer,
68 : 12
مَّنَّاعٍۢ لِّلْخَيْرِ مُعْتَدٍ أَثِيمٍ
Ahmed Ali
Who hinders men from (doing) good, the transgressor, the iniquitous,
68 : 13
عُتُلٍّۭ بَعْدَ ذَٰلِكَ زَنِيمٍ
Ahmed Ali
Crude, and above all, mean and infamous,
68 : 14
أَن كَانَ ذَا مَالٍۢ وَبَنِينَ
Ahmed Ali
Simply because he possesses wealth and children.
68 : 15
إِذَا تُتْلَىٰ عَلَيْهِ ءَايَٰتُنَا قَالَ أَسَٰطِيرُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ
Ahmed Ali
When you recite Our revelations to him, he says: "These are fables of long ago."
68 : 16
سَنَسِمُهُۥ عَلَى ٱلْخُرْطُومِ
Ahmed Ali
We shall brand him on the muzzle.
68 : 17
إِنَّا بَلَوْنَٰهُمْ كَمَا بَلَوْنَآ أَصْحَٰبَ ٱلْجَنَّةِ إِذْ أَقْسَمُوا۟ لَيَصْرِمُنَّهَا مُصْبِحِينَ
Ahmed Ali
We have tried you as We tried the owners of the garden when they vowed to gather the fruits in the morning
68 : 18
وَلَا يَسْتَثْنُونَ
Ahmed Ali
But did not add: "If God may please."
68 : 19
فَطَافَ عَلَيْهَا طَآئِفٌۭ مِّن رَّبِّكَ وَهُمْ نَآئِمُونَ
Ahmed Ali
Then a calamity from your Lord fell upon it, but they remained fast asleep.
68 : 20
فَأَصْبَحَتْ كَٱلصَّرِيمِ
Ahmed Ali
So by the morning it seemed as though picked clean.
68 : 21
فَتَنَادَوْا۟ مُصْبِحِينَ
Ahmed Ali
At daybreak they called to each other:
68 : 22
أَنِ ٱغْدُوا۟ عَلَىٰ حَرْثِكُمْ إِن كُنتُمْ صَٰرِمِينَ
Ahmed Ali
"If you want to gather the fruits, let us go early to the plantation."
68 : 23
فَٱنطَلَقُوا۟ وَهُمْ يَتَخَٰفَتُونَ
Ahmed Ali
So they departed, talking in low voices:
68 : 24
أَن لَّا يَدْخُلَنَّهَا ٱلْيَوْمَ عَلَيْكُم مِّسْكِينٌۭ
Ahmed Ali
"Let no needy person come to you within it today."
68 : 25
وَغَدَوْا۟ عَلَىٰ حَرْدٍۢ قَٰدِرِينَ
Ahmed Ali
They left early in the morning bent on this purpose.
68 : 26
فَلَمَّا رَأَوْهَا قَالُوٓا۟ إِنَّا لَضَآلُّونَ
Ahmed Ali
When they saw (and did not recognise it) they said: "Surely we have lost the way.
68 : 27
بَلْ نَحْنُ مَحْرُومُونَ
Ahmed Ali
No. In fact we have been deprived of it."
68 : 28
قَالَ أَوْسَطُهُمْ أَلَمْ أَقُل لَّكُمْ لَوْلَا تُسَبِّحُونَ
Ahmed Ali
One who was temperate among them, said: "Did I not say: 'Why don't you priase God?'"
68 : 29
قَالُوا۟ سُبْحَٰنَ رَبِّنَآ إِنَّا كُنَّا ظَٰلِمِينَ
Ahmed Ali
"Glory to our Lord," they said; we were really in the wrong."
68 : 30
فَأَقْبَلَ بَعْضُهُمْ عَلَىٰ بَعْضٍۢ يَتَلَٰوَمُونَ
Ahmed Ali
Then they started blaming one another,
68 : 31
قَالُوا۟ يَٰوَيْلَنَآ إِنَّا كُنَّا طَٰغِينَ
Ahmed Ali
Saying: "Alas the woe, we were iniquitous.
68 : 32
عَسَىٰ رَبُّنَآ أَن يُبْدِلَنَا خَيْرًۭا مِّنْهَآ إِنَّآ إِلَىٰ رَبِّنَا رَٰغِبُونَ
Ahmed Ali
Maybe our Lord will give us better than this. We turn to our Lord in supplication."
68 : 33
كَذَٰلِكَ ٱلْعَذَابُ ۖ وَلَعَذَابُ ٱلْءَاخِرَةِ أَكْبَرُ ۚ لَوْ كَانُوا۟ يَعْلَمُونَ
Ahmed Ali
Such is Our chastisement; and the punishment of the Hereafter will be greater, if only they knew!
68 : 34
إِنَّ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ عِندَ رَبِّهِمْ جَنَّٰتِ ٱلنَّعِيمِ
Ahmed Ali
For those who fear God there are pleasure gardens with their Lord.
68 : 35
أَفَنَجْعَلُ ٱلْمُسْلِمِينَ كَٱلْمُجْرِمِينَ
Ahmed Ali
Should We treat those who submit and obey in the same way as those who are culpable?
68 : 36
مَا لَكُمْ كَيْفَ تَحْكُمُونَ
Ahmed Ali
What has come upon you that you judge in such a wise?
68 : 37
أَمْ لَكُمْ كِتَٰبٌۭ فِيهِ تَدْرُسُونَ
Ahmed Ali
Or have you a Book in which you read
68 : 38
إِنَّ لَكُمْ فِيهِ لَمَا تَخَيَّرُونَ
Ahmed Ali
That you can surely have whatever you choose?
68 : 39
أَمْ لَكُمْ أَيْمَٰنٌ عَلَيْنَا بَٰلِغَةٌ إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ ۙ إِنَّ لَكُمْ لَمَا تَحْكُمُونَ
Ahmed Ali
Or have you taken a binding promise from Us which would hold till the Day of Judgement, that you will get whatever you demand?
68 : 40
سَلْهُمْ أَيُّهُم بِذَٰلِكَ زَعِيمٌ
Ahmed Ali
Ask them: "Which of you is able to vouch for this?"
68 : 41
أَمْ لَهُمْ شُرَكَآءُ فَلْيَأْتُوا۟ بِشُرَكَآئِهِمْ إِن كَانُوا۟ صَٰدِقِينَ
Ahmed Ali
Or have they any partners? Let them bring their partners then, if what they say is true.
68 : 42
يَوْمَ يُكْشَفُ عَن سَاقٍۢ وَيُدْعَوْنَ إِلَى ٱلسُّجُودِ فَلَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ
Ahmed Ali
On the day the great calamity befalls, and they are called to bow in homage, they will not be able to do so.
68 : 43
خَٰشِعَةً أَبْصَٰرُهُمْ تَرْهَقُهُمْ ذِلَّةٌۭ ۖ وَقَدْ كَانُوا۟ يُدْعَوْنَ إِلَى ٱلسُّجُودِ وَهُمْ سَٰلِمُونَ
Ahmed Ali
Lowered will be their eyes, disgrace overwhelming them. They had indeed been called to bow in homage when they were free of blame.
68 : 44
فَذَرْنِى وَمَن يُكَذِّبُ بِهَٰذَا ٱلْحَدِيثِ ۖ سَنَسْتَدْرِجُهُم مِّنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ
Ahmed Ali
So leave those who deny this Discourse to Me. We shall lead them step by step to (ruin) in a way they will not know.
68 : 45
وَأُمْلِى لَهُمْ ۚ إِنَّ كَيْدِى مَتِينٌ
Ahmed Ali
Yet I will give them respite: Surely My plan is compact.
68 : 46
أَمْ تَسْـَٔلُهُمْ أَجْرًۭا فَهُم مِّن مَّغْرَمٍۢ مُّثْقَلُونَ
Ahmed Ali
Do you ask for any compensation from them that they are burdened with want?
68 : 47
أَمْ عِندَهُمُ ٱلْغَيْبُ فَهُمْ يَكْتُبُونَ
Ahmed Ali
Or do they have knowledge of the unknown which they copy down?
68 : 48
فَٱصْبِرْ لِحُكْمِ رَبِّكَ وَلَا تَكُن كَصَاحِبِ ٱلْحُوتِ إِذْ نَادَىٰ وَهُوَ مَكْظُومٌۭ
Ahmed Ali
So wait with patience for the judgement of your Lord, and do not be like (onah) of the fish who called (to his Lord) when he was choked with anger.
68 : 49
لَّوْلَآ أَن تَدَٰرَكَهُۥ نِعْمَةٌۭ مِّن رَّبِّهِۦ لَنُبِذَ بِٱلْعَرَآءِ وَهُوَ مَذْمُومٌۭ
Ahmed Ali
Had it not been for a favour from his Lord he would have been cast blame-worthy on a barren plain.
68 : 50
فَٱجْتَبَٰهُ رَبُّهُۥ فَجَعَلَهُۥ مِنَ ٱلصَّٰلِحِينَ
Ahmed Ali
Then his Lord chose him and placed him among the upright.
68 : 51
وَإِن يَكَادُ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ لَيُزْلِقُونَكَ بِأَبْصَٰرِهِمْ لَمَّا سَمِعُوا۟ ٱلذِّكْرَ وَيَقُولُونَ إِنَّهُۥ لَمَجْنُونٌۭ
Ahmed Ali
But the unbelievers would like to stare you out of balance when they hear the warning, and say: "Surely he is possessed;"
68 : 52
وَمَا هُوَ إِلَّا ذِكْرٌۭ لِّلْعَٰلَمِينَ
Ahmed Ali
Whilst it is no more than reminder for the people of the world.