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| ن ۚ وَالْقَلَمِ وَمَا يَسْطُرُونَ {١} |
1. NUN. I swear by the Pen and by that which they write, |
| مَا أَنْتَ بِنِعْمَةِ رَبِّكَ بِمَجْنُونٍ {٢} |
2. By the grace of your Lord you (Muhammad) are not mad (or stupid, deluded or possessed). |
| وَإِنَّ لَكَ لَأَجْرًا غَيْرَ مَمْنُونٍ {٣} |
3. And most surely you shall have a reward unfailing. |
| وَإِنَّكَ لَعَلَىٰ خُلُقٍ عَظِيمٍ {٤} |
4. And most surely you have the most sublime (or exalted) character. |
| فَسَتُبْصِرُ وَيُبْصِرُونَ {٥} |
5. Soon will you see, and they too shall see, |
| بِأَيْيِكُمُ الْمَفْتُونُ {٦} |
6. Which of you is afflicted with madness (stupidity or delusion). |
| إِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِمَنْ ضَلَّ عَنْ سَبِيلِهِ وَهُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِالْمُهْتَدِينَ {٧} |
7. Surely your Lord best knows him who errs from His way, and He best knows the followers of the right guidance. |
| فَلَا تُطِعِ الْمُكَذِّبِينَ {٨} |
8. So do not yield to the rejecters. |
| وَدُّوا لَوْ تُدْهِنُ فَيُدْهِنُونَ {٩} |
9. They desire that you should be pliant (or compromise) so they too would be pliant (compromise). |
| وَلَا تُطِعْ كُلَّ حَلَّافٍ مَهِينٍ {١٠} |
10. And yield not to any mean swearer |
| هَمَّازٍ مَشَّاءٍ بِنَمِيمٍ {١١} |
11. Defamer, going about with slander |
| مَنَّاعٍ لِلْخَيْرِ مُعْتَدٍ أَثِيمٍ {١٢} |
12. Hinderer (obstructer) of good, transgressor beyond limits, malefactor, |
| عُتُلٍّ بَعْدَ ذَٰلِكَ زَنِيمٍ {١٣} |
13. Ignoble (violent, cruel and greedy), besides all that, base-born (inherently degenerate); |
| أَنْ كَانَ ذَا مَالٍ وَبَنِينَ {١٤} |
14. Because he possesses wealth and sons. |
| إِذَا تُتْلَىٰ عَلَيْهِ آيَاتُنَا قَالَ أَسَاطِيرُ الْأَوَّلِينَ {١٥} |
15. When Our communications are recited to him, he says, "Stories of those of old". |
| سَنَسِمُهُ عَلَى الْخُرْطُومِ {١٦} |
16. We will brand him on the snout. |
| إِنَّا بَلَوْنَاهُمْ كَمَا بَلَوْنَا أَصْحَابَ الْجَنَّةِ إِذْ أَقْسَمُوا لَيَصْرِمُنَّهَا مُصْبِحِينَ {١٧} |
17. Surely We will try them as We tried the people of the garden, when they resolved to cut the produce in the morning, |
| وَلَا يَسْتَثْنُونَ {١٨} |
18. And were not willing to set aside a portion (for the poor). |
| فَطَافَ عَلَيْهَا طَائِفٌ مِنْ رَبِّكَ وَهُمْ نَائِمُونَ {١٩} |
19. Then there encompassed it (the garden) a visitation from your Lord while they were sleeping. |
| فَأَصْبَحَتْ كَالصَّرِيمِ {٢٠} |
20. So it became as black, barren land. |
| فَتَنَادَوْا مُصْبِحِينَ {٢١} |
21. And they called out to each other in the morning (unaware of what had happened), |
| أَنِ اغْدُوا عَلَىٰ حَرْثِكُمْ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ صَارِمِينَ {٢٢} |
22. Saying, "Go early to your tilth if you would cut the produce." |
| فَانْطَلَقُوا وَهُمْ يَتَخَافَتُونَ {٢٣} |
23. So they went, while they murmured to each other secretly, |
| أَنْ لَا يَدْخُلَنَّهَا الْيَوْمَ عَلَيْكُمْ مِسْكِينٌ {٢٤} |
24. Saying, "Let no poor man enter it today besides you." |
| وَغَدَوْا عَلَىٰ حَرْدٍ قَادِرِينَ {٢٥} |
25. And in the morning they went, strong in this (evil) resolve. |
| فَلَمَّا رَأَوْهَا قَالُوا إِنَّا لَضَالُّونَ {٢٦} |
26. But when they saw it (the garden), they said, "Most surely we have gone astray. |
| بَلْ نَحْنُ مَحْرُومُونَ {٢٧} |
27. "Nay! We are made to suffer privation." |
| قَالَ أَوْسَطُهُمْ أَلَمْ أَقُلْ لَكُمْ لَوْلَا تُسَبِّحُونَ {٢٨} |
28. The best of them said, "Did I not say to you, ´Why not glorify (Allah)?´" |
| قَالُوا سُبْحَانَ رَبِّنَا إِنَّا كُنَّا ظَالِمِينَ {٢٩} |
29. They said, "Glory be to our Lord, surely we were unjust." |
| فَأَقْبَلَ بَعْضُهُمْ عَلَىٰ بَعْضٍ يَتَلَاوَمُونَ {٣٠} |
30. Then some of them advanced against others, blaming each other. |
| قَالُوا يَا وَيْلَنَا إِنَّا كُنَّا طَاغِينَ {٣١} |
31. Said they, "O woe to us! Surely we were outrageous transgressors: |
| عَسَىٰ رَبُّنَا أَنْ يُبْدِلَنَا خَيْرًا مِنْهَا إِنَّا إِلَىٰ رَبِّنَا رَاغِبُونَ {٣٢} |
32. "Maybe, our Lord will give us instead a garden better than this; lo! We beseech (or turn in repentance to) our Lord." |
| كَذَٰلِكَ الْعَذَابُ ۖ وَلَعَذَابُ الْآخِرَةِ أَكْبَرُ ۚ لَوْ كَانُوا يَعْلَمُونَ {٣٣} |
33. Such is the chastisement, and certainly the chastisement of the Hereafter is even greater, did they but know! |
| إِنَّ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ عِنْدَ رَبِّهِمْ جَنَّاتِ النَّعِيمِ {٣٤} |
34. Surely those who guard against evil shall have with their Lord Gardens of Delight. |
| أَفَنَجْعَلُ الْمُسْلِمِينَ كَالْمُجْرِمِينَ {٣٥} |
35. What! Shall We then treat those who have Surrendered (in Islam) as those who are guilty? |
| مَا لَكُمْ كَيْفَ تَحْكُمُونَ {٣٦} |
36. What ails you? How do you judge? |
| أَمْ لَكُمْ كِتَابٌ فِيهِ تَدْرُسُونَ {٣٧} |
37. Or have you a Book wherein you learn, |
| إِنَّ لَكُمْ فِيهِ لَمَا تَخَيَّرُونَ {٣٨} |
38. That you shall have through it whatever you choose? |
| أَمْ لَكُمْ أَيْمَانٌ عَلَيْنَا بَالِغَةٌ إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ ۙ إِنَّ لَكُمْ لَمَا تَحْكُمُونَ {٣٩} |
39. Or have you received from Us an agreement, confirmed by an oath, extending until the Day of Resurrection, that you shall have what you demand? |
| سَلْهُمْ أَيُّهُمْ بِذَٰلِكَ زَعِيمٌ {٤٠} |
40. Ask them which of them will vouch for that, |
| أَمْ لَهُمْ شُرَكَاءُ فَلْيَأْتُوا بِشُرَكَائِهِمْ إِنْ كَانُوا صَادِقِينَ {٤١} |
41. Or have they associates (in the Godhead); then let them produce them if they are truthful. |
| يَوْمَ يُكْشَفُ عَنْ سَاقٍ وَيُدْعَوْنَ إِلَى السُّجُودِ فَلَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ {٤٢} |
42. On the day when the Shin (the Hidden Mystery or Truth) shall be laid bare, and they shall be called upon to make obeisance, but they shall not be able, |
| خَاشِعَةً أَبْصَارُهُمْ تَرْهَقُهُمْ ذِلَّةٌ ۖ وَقَدْ كَانُوا يُدْعَوْنَ إِلَى السُّجُودِ وَهُمْ سَالِمُونَ {٤٣} |
43. Their looks cast down, abasement shall overtake them seeing that they had been called upon to make obeisance indeed while yet they were safe. |
| فَذَرْنِي وَمَنْ يُكَذِّبُ بِهَٰذَا الْحَدِيثِ ۖ سَنَسْتَدْرِجُهُمْ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ {٤٤} |
44. So leave Me and him who rejects this Announcement (The Message of Muhammad); We will overtake them by degrees, from whence they perceive not: |
| وَأُمْلِي لَهُمْ ۚ إِنَّ كَيْدِي مَتِينٌ {٤٥} |
45. Yet I do bear with them, for lo! My plan is firm. |
| أَمْ تَسْأَلُهُمْ أَجْرًا فَهُمْ مِنْ مَغْرَمٍ مُثْقَلُونَ {٤٦} |
46. Or do you ask from them a reward, so that they are burdened with debt? |
| أَمْ عِنْدَهُمُ الْغَيْبُ فَهُمْ يَكْتُبُونَ {٤٧} |
47. Or have they the knowledge of the unseen, so that they write it down? |
| فَاصْبِرْ لِحُكْمِ رَبِّكَ وَلَا تَكُنْ كَصَاحِبِ الْحُوتِ إِذْ نَادَىٰ وَهُوَ مَكْظُومٌ {٤٨} |
48. So wait patiently for the judgment of your Lord, and be not like the Companion of the Fish (Jonah), when he cried while he was in distress. |
| لَوْلَا أَنْ تَدَارَكَهُ نِعْمَةٌ مِنْ رَبِّهِ لَنُبِذَ بِالْعَرَاءِ وَهُوَ مَذْمُومٌ {٤٩} |
49. Were it not that favour from his Lord had reached him, he would certainly have been cast down upon the naked shore while he was blameworthy. |
| فَاجْتَبَاهُ رَبُّهُ فَجَعَلَهُ مِنَ الصَّالِحِينَ {٥٠} |
50. Then his Lord chose him, and He made him of the righteous. |
| وَإِنْ يَكَادُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا لَيُزْلِقُونَكَ بِأَبْصَارِهِمْ لَمَّا سَمِعُوا الذِّكْرَ وَيَقُولُونَ إِنَّهُ لَمَجْنُونٌ {٥١} |
51. And those who disbelieve would almost smite you with their eyes when they hear the Reminder (Quran), and they say, "Most surely he is mad (or possessed). |
| وَمَا هُوَ إِلَّا ذِكْرٌ لِلْعَالَمِينَ {٥٢} |
52. And it is naught but a reminder to creation (or all the worlds). |
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