Text:Sura al-Qalam

In the Name of Allah, the All-beneficent, the All-merciful.	بِسْمِ اللَّـهِ الرَّحْمَـٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
Noun. By the Pen and what they write: (1)	ن وَالْقَلَمِ وَمَا يَسْطُرُونَ ﴿١﴾
you are not, by your Lord's blessing, crazy, (2)	مَا أَنتَ بِنِعْمَةِ رَبِّكَ بِمَجْنُونٍ ﴿٢﴾
and yours indeed will be an everlasting reward, (3)	وَإِنَّ لَكَ لَأَجْرًا غَيْرَ مَمْنُونٍ ﴿٣﴾
and indeed you possess a great character. (4)	وَإِنَّكَ لَعَلَىٰ خُلُقٍ عَظِيمٍ ﴿٤﴾
You will see and they will see, (5)	فَسَتُبْصِرُ وَيُبْصِرُونَ ﴿٥﴾
which one of you is crazy. (6)	بِأَييِّكُمُ الْمَفْتُونُ ﴿٦﴾
Indeed your Lord knows best those who stray from His way, and He knows best those who are guided. (7)	إِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِمَن ضَلَّ عَن سَبِيلِهِ وَهُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِالْمُهْتَدِينَ ﴿٧﴾
So do not obey the deniers, (8)	فَلَا تُطِعِ الْمُكَذِّبِينَ ﴿٨﴾
who are eager that you should be pliable, so that they may be pliable [towards you]. (9)	وَدُّوا لَوْ تُدْهِنُ فَيُدْهِنُونَ ﴿٩﴾
And do not obey any vile swearer, (10)	وَلَا تُطِعْ كُلَّ حَلَّافٍ مَّهِينٍ ﴿١٠﴾
scandal-monger, talebearer, (11)	هَمَّازٍ مَّشَّاءٍ بِنَمِيمٍ ﴿١١﴾
hinderer of all good, sinful transgressor, (12)	مَّنَّاعٍ لِّلْخَيْرِ مُعْتَدٍ أَثِيمٍ ﴿١٢﴾
callous and, on top of that, baseborn, (13)	عُتُلٍّ بَعْدَ ذَٰلِكَ زَنِيمٍ ﴿١٣﴾
[only] because he has wealth and children. (14)	أَن كَانَ ذَا مَالٍ وَبَنِينَ ﴿١٤﴾
When Our signs are recited to him, he says,'Myths of the ancients!' (15)	إِذَا تُتْلَىٰ عَلَيْهِ آيَاتُنَا قَالَ أَسَاطِيرُ الْأَوَّلِينَ ﴿١٥﴾
Soon We shall brand him on the snout. (16)	سَنَسِمُهُ عَلَى الْخُرْطُومِ ﴿١٦﴾
Indeed we have tested them just as We tested the People of the Garden when they vowed they would gather its fruit at dawn, (17)	إِنَّا بَلَوْنَاهُمْ كَمَا بَلَوْنَا أَصْحَابَ الْجَنَّةِ إِذْ أَقْسَمُوا لَيَصْرِمُنَّهَا مُصْبِحِينَ ﴿١٧﴾
and they did not make any exception. (18)	وَلَا يَسْتَثْنُونَ ﴿١٨﴾
Then a visitation from your Lord visited it while they were asleep. (19)	فَطَافَ عَلَيْهَا طَائِفٌ مِّن رَّبِّكَ وَهُمْ نَائِمُونَ ﴿١٩﴾
So by the dawn it was like a harvested field. (20)	فَأَصْبَحَتْ كَالصَّرِيمِ ﴿٢٠﴾
At dawn they called out to one another, (21)	فَتَنَادَوْا مُصْبِحِينَ ﴿٢١﴾
"Get off early to your field if you have to gather [the fruits]." (22)	أَنِ اغْدُوا عَلَىٰ حَرْثِكُمْ إِن كُنتُمْ صَارِمِينَ ﴿٢٢﴾
So off they went, murmuring to one another: (23)	فَانطَلَقُوا وَهُمْ يَتَخَافَتُونَ ﴿٢٣﴾
'Today no needy man shall come to you in it.' (24)	أَن لَّا يَدْخُلَنَّهَا الْيَوْمَ عَلَيْكُم مِّسْكِينٌ ﴿٢٤﴾
They set out early morning, [considering themselves] able to grudge. (25)	وَغَدَوْا عَلَىٰ حَرْدٍ قَادِرِينَ ﴿٢٥﴾
But when they saw it, they said, 'We have indeed lost our way!' (26)	فَلَمَّا رَأَوْهَا قَالُوا إِنَّا لَضَالُّونَ ﴿٢٦﴾
'No, we are deprived!' (27)	بَلْ نَحْنُ مَحْرُومُونَ ﴿٢٧﴾
The most moderate among them said,'Did I not tell you, "Why do you not glorify [Allah]?"' (28)	قَالَ أَوْسَطُهُمْ أَلَمْ أَقُل لَّكُمْ لَوْلَا تُسَبِّحُونَ ﴿٢٨﴾
They said, 'Immaculate is our Lord! We have indeed been wrongdoers!' (29)	قَالُوا سُبْحَانَ رَبِّنَا إِنَّا كُنَّا ظَالِمِينَ ﴿٢٩﴾
Then they turned to one another, blaming each other. (30)	فَأَقْبَلَ بَعْضُهُمْ عَلَىٰ بَعْضٍ يَتَلَاوَمُونَ ﴿٣٠﴾
They said,'Woe to us! Indeed we have been rebellious. (31)	قَالُوا يَا وَيْلَنَا إِنَّا كُنَّا طَاغِينَ ﴿٣١﴾
Maybe our Lord will give us a better one in its place. Indeed we turn earnestly to our Lord.' (32)	عَسَىٰ رَبُّنَا أَن يُبْدِلَنَا خَيْرًا مِّنْهَا إِنَّا إِلَىٰ رَبِّنَا رَاغِبُونَ ﴿٣٢﴾
Such was the punishment; and the punishment of the Hereafter is surely greater, had they known. (33)	كَذَٰلِكَ الْعَذَابُ وَلَعَذَابُ الْآخِرَةِ أَكْبَرُ لَوْ كَانُوا يَعْلَمُونَ ﴿٣٣﴾
Indeed for the God wary there will be gardens of bliss near their Lord. (34)	إِنَّ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ عِندَ رَبِّهِمْ جَنَّاتِ النَّعِيمِ ﴿٣٤﴾
Shall We, then, treat those who submit [to Us] as [We treat] the guilty? (35)	أَفَنَجْعَلُ الْمُسْلِمِينَ كَالْمُجْرِمِينَ ﴿٣٥﴾
What is the matter with you? How do you judge! (36)	مَا لَكُمْ كَيْفَ تَحْكُمُونَ ﴿٣٦﴾
Do you possess a scripture in which you read (37)	أَمْ لَكُمْ كِتَابٌ فِيهِ تَدْرُسُونَ ﴿٣٧﴾
that you shall indeed have in it whatever you would like? (38)	إِنَّ لَكُمْ فِيهِ لَمَا تَخَيَّرُونَ ﴿٣٨﴾
Do you have a pledge binding on Us until the Day of Resurrection, that you shall indeed have whatever you decide? (39)	أَمْ لَكُمْ أَيْمَانٌ عَلَيْنَا بَالِغَةٌ إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ إِنَّ لَكُمْ لَمَا تَحْكُمُونَ ﴿٣٩﴾
Ask them, which of them will aver [any of] that! (40)	سَلْهُمْ أَيُّهُم بِذَٰلِكَ زَعِيمٌ ﴿٤٠﴾
Do they have any partners [they ascribe to Allah]? Then let them produce their partners, if they are truthful. (41)	أَمْ لَهُمْ شُرَكَاءُ فَلْيَأْتُوا بِشُرَكَائِهِمْ إِن كَانُوا صَادِقِينَ ﴿٤١﴾
The day when the catastrophe occurs, and they are summoned to prostrate themselves, they will not be able [to do it]. (42)	يَوْمَ يُكْشَفُ عَن سَاقٍ وَيُدْعَوْنَ إِلَى السُّجُودِ فَلَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ ﴿٤٢﴾
With a humbled look [in their eyes], they will be overcast by abasement. Certainly they were summoned to prostrate themselves while they were yet sound. (43)	خَاشِعَةً أَبْصَارُهُمْ تَرْهَقُهُمْ ذِلَّةٌ وَقَدْ كَانُوا يُدْعَوْنَ إِلَى السُّجُودِ وَهُمْ سَالِمُونَ ﴿٤٣﴾
So leave Me with those who deny this discourse. We will draw them imperceptibly [into ruin], whence they do not know. (44)	فَذَرْنِي وَمَن يُكَذِّبُ بِهَـٰذَا الْحَدِيثِ سَنَسْتَدْرِجُهُم مِّنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ ﴿٤٤﴾
I will grant them respite, for My devising is indeed sure. (45)	وَأُمْلِي لَهُمْ إِنَّ كَيْدِي مَتِينٌ ﴿٤٥﴾
Do you ask them for a reward, so that they are weighed down with debt? (46)	أَمْ تَسْأَلُهُمْ أَجْرًا فَهُم مِّن مَّغْرَمٍ مُّثْقَلُونَ ﴿٤٦﴾
Do they possess [access to] the Unseen so that they write it down? (47)	أَمْ عِندَهُمُ الْغَيْبُ فَهُمْ يَكْتُبُونَ ﴿٤٧﴾
So submit patiently to the judgement of your Lord, and do not be like the Man of the Fish who called out as he choked with grief. (48)	فَاصْبِرْ لِحُكْمِ رَبِّكَ وَلَا تَكُن كَصَاحِبِ الْحُوتِ إِذْ نَادَىٰ وَهُوَ مَكْظُومٌ ﴿٤٨﴾
Had it not been for a blessing that came to his rescue from his Lord, he would surely have been cast on a bare shore while he were blameworthy. (49)	لَّوْلَا أَن تَدَارَكَهُ نِعْمَةٌ مِّن رَّبِّهِ لَنُبِذَ بِالْعَرَاءِ وَهُوَ مَذْمُومٌ ﴿٤٩﴾
So his Lord chose him and made him one of the righteous. (50)	فَاجْتَبَاهُ رَبُّهُ فَجَعَلَهُ مِنَ الصَّالِحِينَ ﴿٥٠﴾
Indeed the faithless almost devour you with their eyes when they hear the Reminder, and they say," He is indeed crazy." (51)	وَإِن يَكَادُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا لَيُزْلِقُونَكَ بِأَبْصَارِهِمْ لَمَّا سَمِعُوا الذِّكْرَ وَيَقُولُونَ إِنَّهُ لَمَجْنُونٌ ﴿٥١﴾
Yet it is just a reminder for all the nations. (52)	وَمَا هُوَ إِلَّا ذِكْرٌ لِّلْعَالَمِينَ ﴿٥٢﴾