Surah Al-Qalam

 

68:1
68:1

Nun. By the pen and what they inscribe,

 

68:2
68:2

You are not, [O Muhammad], by the favor of your Lord, a madman.

 

68:3
68:3

And indeed, for you is a reward uninterrupted.

 

68:4
68:4

And indeed, you are of a great moral character.

 

68:5
68:5

So you will see and they will see

 

68:6
68:6

Which of you is the afflicted [by a devil].

 

68:7
68:7

Indeed, your Lord is most knowing of who has gone astray from His way, and He is most knowing of the [rightly] guided.

 

68:8
68:8

Then do not obey the deniers.

 

68:9
68:9

They wish that you would soften [in your position], so they would soften [toward you].

 

68:10
68:10

And do not obey every worthless habitual swearer

 

68:11
68:11

[And] scorner, going about with malicious gossip –

 

68:12
68:12

A preventer of good, transgressing and sinful,

 

68:13
68:13

Cruel, moreover, and an illegitimate pretender.

 

68:14
68:14

Because he is a possessor of wealth and children,

 

68:15
68:15

When Our verses are recited to him, he says, “Legends of the former peoples.”

 

68:16
68:16

We will brand him upon the snout.

 

68:17
68:17

Indeed, We have tried them as We tried the companions of the garden, when they swore to cut its fruit in the [early] morning

 

68:18
68:18

Without making exception.

68:19
68:19

So there came upon the garden an affliction from your Lord while they were asleep.

68:20
68:20

And it became as though reaped.

68:21
68:21

And they called one another at morning,

68:22
68:22

[Saying], “Go early to your crop if you would cut the fruit.”

68:23
68:23

So they set out, while lowering their voices,

68:24
68:24

[Saying], “There will surely not enter it today upon you [any] poor person.”

68:25
68:25

And they went early in determination, [assuming themselves] able.

68:26
68:26

But when they saw it, they said, “Indeed, we are lost;

68:27
68:27

Rather, we have been deprived.”

68:28
68:28

The most moderate of them said, “Did I not say to you, ‘Why do you not exalt [ Allah ]?’ ”

68:29
68:29

They said, “Exalted is our Lord! Indeed, we were wrongdoers.”

68:30
68:30

Then they approached one another, blaming each other.

68:31
68:31

They said, “O woe to us; indeed we were transgressors.

68:32
68:32

Perhaps our Lord will substitute for us [one] better than it. Indeed, we are toward our Lord desirous.”

68:33
68:33

Such is the punishment [of this world]. And the punishment of the Hereafter is greater, if they only knew.

68:34
68:34

Indeed, for the righteous with their Lord are the Gardens of Pleasure.

68:46
68:46

Or do you ask of them a payment, so they are by debt burdened down?

68:47
68:47

Or have they [knowledge of] the unseen, so they write [it] down?

68:48
68:48

Then be patient for the decision of your Lord, [O Muhammad], and be not like the companion of the fish when he called out while he was distressed.

68:49
68:49

If not that a favor from his Lord overtook him, he would have been thrown onto the naked shore while he was censured.

68:50
68:50

And his Lord chose him and made him of the righteous.

68:51
68:51

And indeed, those who disbelieve would almost make you slip with their eyes when they hear the message, and they say, “Indeed, he is mad.”

68:52
68:52

But it is not except a reminder to the worlds.