Qur'an
Surah 68 - The Pen
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In the Name
of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
[68.1] Noon.
I swear by the pen and what the angels write,
[68.2] By
the grace of your Lord you are not mad.
[68.3] And
most surely you shall have a reward never to be cut off.
[68.4] And
most surely you conform (yourself) to sublime morality.
[68.5] So
you shall see, and they (too) shall see,
[68.6] Which
of you is afflicted with madness.
[68.7]
Surely your Lord best knows him who errs from His way, and He best knows the followers of
the right course.
[68.8] So do
not yield to the rejecters.
[68.9] They
wish that you should be pliant so they (too) would be pliant.
[68.10] And
yield not to any mean swearer,
[68.11]
Defamer, going about with slander,
[68.12]
Forbidder of good, out-stepping the limits, sinful,
[68.13]
Ignoble, besides all that, base-born;
[68.14]
Because he possesses wealth and sons.
[68.15] When
Our communications are recited to him, he says: Stories of those of yore.
[68.16] We
will brand him on the nose.
[68.17]
Surely We will try them as We tried the owners of the garden, when they swore that they
would certainly cut off the produce in the morning,
[68.18] And
were not willing to set aside a portion (for the poor).
[68.19] Then
there encompassed it a visitation from your Lord while they were sleeping.
[68.20] So
it became as black, barren land.
[68.21] And
they called out to each other in the morning,
[68.22]
Saying: Go early to your tilth if you would cut (the produce).
[68.23] So
they went, while they consulted together secretly,
[68.24]
Saying: No poor man shall enter it today upon you.
[68.25] And
in the morning they went, having the power to prevent.
[68.26] But
when they saw it, they said: Most surely we have gone astray.
[68.27] Nay!
we are made to suffer privation.
[68.28] The
best of them said: Did I not say to you, Why do you not glorify (Allah)?
[68.29] They
said: Glory be to our Lord, surely we were unjust.
[68.30] Then
some of them advanced against others, blaming each other.
[68.31] Said
they: O woe to us! surely we were inordinate:
[68.32]
Maybe, our Lord will give us instead one better than it; surely to our Lord do we make our
humble petition.
[68.33] Such
is the chastisement, and certainly the chastisement of the hereafter is greater, did they
but know!
[68.34]
Surely those who guard (against evil) shall have with their Lord gardens of bliss.
[68.35]
What! shall We then make (i.e. treat) those who submit as the guilty?
[68.36] What
has happened to you? How do you judge?
[68.37] Or
have you a book wherein you read,
[68.38] That
you have surely therein what you choose?
[68.39] Or
have you received from Us an agreement confirmed by an oath extending to the day of
resurrection that you shall surely have what you demand?
[68.40] Ask
them which of them will vouch for that,
[68.41] Or
have they associates if they are truthful.
[68.42] On
the day when there shall be a severe affliction, and they shall be called upon to make
obeisance, but they shall not be able,
[68.43]
Their looks cast down, abasement shall overtake them; and they were called upon to make
obeisance indeed while yet they were safe.
[68.44] So
leave Me and him who rejects this announcement; We will overtake them by degrees, from
whence they perceive not:
[68.45] And
I do bear with them, surely My plan is firm.
[68.46] Or
do you ask from them a reward, so that they are burdened with debt?
[68.47] Or
have they (the knowledge of) the unseen, so that they write (it) down?
[68.48] So
wait patiently for the judgment of your Lord, and be not like the companion of the fish,
when he cried while he was in distress.
[68.49] Were
it not that favor from his Lord had overtaken him, he would certainly have been cast down
upon the naked Found while he was blamed.
[68.50] Then
his Lord chose him, and He made him of the good.
[68.51] And
those who disbelieve would almost smite you with their eyes when they hear the reminder,
and they say: Most surely he is mad.
[68.52] And
it is naught but a reminder to the nations.
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