Surah Al-Qalam

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68:1
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ن ۚ وَالْقَلَمِ وَمَا يَسْطُرُونَ
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Translation (Sahih International)
Nun. By the pen and what they inscribe,
68:2
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مَا أَنتَ بِنِعْمَةِ رَبِّكَ بِمَجْنُونٍ
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Translation (Sahih International)
You are not, [O Muhammad], by the favor of your Lord, a madman.
68:3
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وَإِنَّ لَكَ لَأَجْرًا غَيْرَ مَمْنُونٍ
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Translation (Sahih International)
And indeed, for you is a reward uninterrupted.
68:4
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وَإِنَّكَ لَعَلَىٰ خُلُقٍ عَظِيمٍ
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Translation (Sahih International)
And indeed, you are of a great moral character.
68:5
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فَسَتُبْصِرُ وَيُبْصِرُونَ
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Translation (Sahih International)
So you will see and they will see
68:6
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بِأَييِّكُمُ الْمَفْتُونُ
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Translation (Sahih International)
Which of you is the afflicted [by a devil].
68:7
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إِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِمَن ضَلَّ عَن سَبِيلِهِ وَهُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِالْمُهْتَدِينَ
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Translation (Sahih International)
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
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فَلَا تُطِعِ الْمُكَذِّبِينَ
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Translation (Sahih International)
Then do not obey the deniers.
68:9
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وَدُّوا لَوْ تُدْهِنُ فَيُدْهِنُونَ
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Translation (Sahih International)
They wish that you would soften [in your position], so they would soften [toward you].
68:10
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وَلَا تُطِعْ كُلَّ حَلَّافٍ مَّهِينٍ
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Translation (Sahih International)
And do not obey every worthless habitual swearer
68:11
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هَمَّازٍ مَّشَّاءٍ بِنَمِيمٍ
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Translation (Sahih International)
[And] scorner, going about with malicious gossip -
68:12
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مَّنَّاعٍ لِّلْخَيْرِ مُعْتَدٍ أَثِيمٍ
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Translation (Sahih International)
A preventer of good, transgressing and sinful,
68:13
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عُتُلٍّ بَعْدَ ذَٰلِكَ زَنِيمٍ
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Translation (Sahih International)
Cruel, moreover, and an illegitimate pretender.
68:14
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أَن كَانَ ذَا مَالٍ وَبَنِينَ
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Translation (Sahih International)
Because he is a possessor of wealth and children,
68:15
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إِذَا تُتْلَىٰ عَلَيْهِ آيَاتُنَا قَالَ أَسَاطِيرُ الْأَوَّلِينَ
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Translation (Sahih International)
When Our verses are recited to him, he says, "Legends of the former peoples."
68:16
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سَنَسِمُهُ عَلَى الْخُرْطُومِ
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Translation (Sahih International)
We will brand him upon the snout.
68:17
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إِنَّا بَلَوْنَاهُمْ كَمَا بَلَوْنَا أَصْحَابَ الْجَنَّةِ إِذْ أَقْسَمُوا لَيَصْرِمُنَّهَا مُصْبِحِينَ
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Translation (Sahih International)
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
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وَلَا يَسْتَثْنُونَ
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Translation (Sahih International)
Without making exception.
68:19
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فَطَافَ عَلَيْهَا طَائِفٌ مِّن رَّبِّكَ وَهُمْ نَائِمُونَ
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Translation (Sahih International)
So there came upon the garden an affliction from your Lord while they were asleep.
68:20
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فَأَصْبَحَتْ كَالصَّرِيمِ
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Translation (Sahih International)
And it became as though reaped.
68:21
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فَتَنَادَوْا مُصْبِحِينَ
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Translation (Sahih International)
And they called one another at morning,
68:22
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أَنِ اغْدُوا عَلَىٰ حَرْثِكُمْ إِن كُنتُمْ صَارِمِينَ
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Translation (Sahih International)
[Saying], "Go early to your crop if you would cut the fruit."
68:23
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فَانطَلَقُوا وَهُمْ يَتَخَافَتُونَ
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Translation (Sahih International)
So they set out, while lowering their voices,
68:24
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أَن لَّا يَدْخُلَنَّهَا الْيَوْمَ عَلَيْكُم مِّسْكِينٌ
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Translation (Sahih International)
[Saying], "There will surely not enter it today upon you [any] poor person."
68:25
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وَغَدَوْا عَلَىٰ حَرْدٍ قَادِرِينَ
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Translation (Sahih International)
And they went early in determination, [assuming themselves] able.
68:26
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فَلَمَّا رَأَوْهَا قَالُوا إِنَّا لَضَالُّونَ
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Translation (Sahih International)
But when they saw it, they said, "Indeed, we are lost;
68:27
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بَلْ نَحْنُ مَحْرُومُونَ
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Translation (Sahih International)
Rather, we have been deprived."
68:28
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قَالَ أَوْسَطُهُمْ أَلَمْ أَقُل لَّكُمْ لَوْلَا تُسَبِّحُونَ
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Translation (Sahih International)
The most moderate of them said, "Did I not say to you, 'Why do you not exalt [ Allah ]?' "
68:29
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قَالُوا سُبْحَانَ رَبِّنَا إِنَّا كُنَّا ظَالِمِينَ
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Translation (Sahih International)
They said, "Exalted is our Lord! Indeed, we were wrongdoers."
68:30
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فَأَقْبَلَ بَعْضُهُمْ عَلَىٰ بَعْضٍ يَتَلَاوَمُونَ
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Translation (Sahih International)
Then they approached one another, blaming each other.
68:31
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قَالُوا يَا وَيْلَنَا إِنَّا كُنَّا طَاغِينَ
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Translation (Sahih International)
They said, "O woe to us; indeed we were transgressors.
68:32
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عَسَىٰ رَبُّنَا أَن يُبْدِلَنَا خَيْرًا مِّنْهَا إِنَّا إِلَىٰ رَبِّنَا رَاغِبُونَ
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Translation (Sahih International)
Perhaps our Lord will substitute for us [one] better than it. Indeed, we are toward our Lord desirous."
68:33
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كَذَٰلِكَ الْعَذَابُ ۖ وَلَعَذَابُ الْآخِرَةِ أَكْبَرُ ۚ لَوْ كَانُوا يَعْلَمُونَ
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Translation (Sahih International)
Such is the punishment [of this world]. And the punishment of the Hereafter is greater, if they only knew.
68:34
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إِنَّ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ عِندَ رَبِّهِمْ جَنَّاتِ النَّعِيمِ
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Translation (Sahih International)
Indeed, for the righteous with their Lord are the Gardens of Pleasure.
68:35
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أَفَنَجْعَلُ الْمُسْلِمِينَ كَالْمُجْرِمِينَ
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Translation (Sahih International)
Then will We treat the Muslims like the criminals?
68:36
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مَا لَكُمْ كَيْفَ تَحْكُمُونَ
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Translation (Sahih International)
What is [the matter] with you? How do you judge?
68:37
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أَمْ لَكُمْ كِتَابٌ فِيهِ تَدْرُسُونَ
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Translation (Sahih International)
Or do you have a scripture in which you learn
68:38
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إِنَّ لَكُمْ فِيهِ لَمَا تَخَيَّرُونَ
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Translation (Sahih International)
That indeed for you is whatever you choose?
68:39
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أَمْ لَكُمْ أَيْمَانٌ عَلَيْنَا بَالِغَةٌ إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ ۙ إِنَّ لَكُمْ لَمَا تَحْكُمُونَ
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Translation (Sahih International)
Or do you have oaths [binding] upon Us, extending until the Day of Resurrection, that indeed for you is whatever you judge?
68:40
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سَلْهُمْ أَيُّهُم بِذَٰلِكَ زَعِيمٌ
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Translation (Sahih International)
Ask them which of them, for that [claim], is responsible.
68:41
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أَمْ لَهُمْ شُرَكَاءُ فَلْيَأْتُوا بِشُرَكَائِهِمْ إِن كَانُوا صَادِقِينَ
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Translation (Sahih International)
Or do they have partners? Then let them bring their partners, if they should be truthful.
68:42
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يَوْمَ يُكْشَفُ عَن سَاقٍ وَيُدْعَوْنَ إِلَى السُّجُودِ فَلَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ
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Translation (Sahih International)
The Day the shin will be uncovered and they are invited to prostration but the disbelievers will not be able,
68:43
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خَاشِعَةً أَبْصَارُهُمْ تَرْهَقُهُمْ ذِلَّةٌ ۖ وَقَدْ كَانُوا يُدْعَوْنَ إِلَى السُّجُودِ وَهُمْ سَالِمُونَ
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Translation (Sahih International)
Their eyes humbled, humiliation will cover them. And they used to be invited to prostration while they were sound.
68:44
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فَذَرْنِي وَمَن يُكَذِّبُ بِهَٰذَا الْحَدِيثِ ۖ سَنَسْتَدْرِجُهُم مِّنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ
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Translation (Sahih International)
So leave Me, [O Muhammad], with [the matter of] whoever denies the Qur'an. We will progressively lead them [to punishment] from where they do not know.
68:45
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وَأُمْلِي لَهُمْ ۚ إِنَّ كَيْدِي مَتِينٌ
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Translation (Sahih International)
And I will give them time. Indeed, My plan is firm.
68:46
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أَمْ تَسْأَلُهُمْ أَجْرًا فَهُم مِّن مَّغْرَمٍ مُّثْقَلُونَ
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Translation (Sahih International)
Or do you ask of them a payment, so they are by debt burdened down?
68:47
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أَمْ عِندَهُمُ الْغَيْبُ فَهُمْ يَكْتُبُونَ
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Translation (Sahih International)
Or have they [knowledge of] the unseen, so they write [it] down?
68:48
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فَاصْبِرْ لِحُكْمِ رَبِّكَ وَلَا تَكُن كَصَاحِبِ الْحُوتِ إِذْ نَادَىٰ وَهُوَ مَكْظُومٌ
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Translation (Sahih International)
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
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لَّوْلَا أَن تَدَارَكَهُ نِعْمَةٌ مِّن رَّبِّهِ لَنُبِذَ بِالْعَرَاءِ وَهُوَ مَذْمُومٌ
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Translation (Sahih International)
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
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فَاجْتَبَاهُ رَبُّهُ فَجَعَلَهُ مِنَ الصَّالِحِينَ
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Translation (Sahih International)
And his Lord chose him and made him of the righteous.
68:51
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وَإِن يَكَادُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا لَيُزْلِقُونَكَ بِأَبْصَارِهِمْ لَمَّا سَمِعُوا الذِّكْرَ وَيَقُولُونَ إِنَّهُ لَمَجْنُونٌ
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Translation (Sahih International)
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
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وَمَا هُوَ إِلَّا ذِكْرٌ لِّلْعَالَمِينَ
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Translation (Sahih International)
But it is not except a reminder to the worlds.
Surah Al-Qalam [68]
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