https://www.humanreligions.info/sura_68.html
By Vexen Crabtree 2013
Title: Al-Qalam
English: The Pen
Location: Makkah
Traditional Order:
< Sura 67 (Al-Mulk - The Sovereignty)
> Sura 69 (Al-Haaqqa - The Reality)
Chronological Order:
< Sura 96 (Al-Alaq - The Clot)
> Sura 73 (Al-Muzzammil - The Enshrouded One)
Verses: 52
| 1 | Nun. By the Pen, and what they inscribe, | Sura 68:52: See God's Methods of Communication: Universal Truth Versus Hebrew and Arabic: 9.1. Islam: God Sends Messengers Who Speak the Local Language (Contradictions). |
| 2 | thou art not, by the blessing of thy Lord, a man possessed. | |
| 3 | Surely thou shalt have a wage unfailing; | |
| 4 | surely thou art upon a mighty morality. | |
| 5 | So thou shalt see, and they will see, | |
| 6 | which of you is the demented. | |
| 7 | Surely thy Lord knows very well those who have gone astray from His way, and He knows very well those who are guided. | |
| 8 | So obey thou not those who cry lies. | |
| 9 | They wish that thou shouldst compromise, then they would compromise. | |
| 10 | And obey thou not every mean swearer, | |
| 11 | backbiter, going about with slander, | |
| 12 | hinderer of good, guilty aggressor, coarse-grained, | |
| 13 | moreover ignoble, | |
| 14 | because he has wealth and sons. | |
| 15 | When Our signs are recited to him, he says, 'Fairy-tales of the ancients!' | |
| 16 | We shall brand him upon the muzzle! | |
| 17 | Now We have tried them, even as We tried the owners of the garden when they swore they would pluck in the morning | |
| 18 | and they added not the saving words. | |
| 19 | Then a visitation from thy Lord visited it, while they were sleeping, | |
| 20 | and in the morning it was as if it were a garden plucked. | |
| 21 | In the morning they called to one another, | |
| 22 | 'Come forth betimes upon your tillage, if you would pluck!' | |
| 23 | So they departed, whispering together, | |
| 24 | 'No needy man shall enter it today against your will.' | |
| 25 | And they went forth early, determined upon their purpose. | |
| 26 | But when they saw it, they said, 'Surely we are gone astray; | |
| 27 | nay, rather we have been robbed!' | |
| 28 | Said the most moderate of them, 'Did I not say to you, "Why do you not give glory?"' | |
| 29 | They said, 'Glory be to God, our Lord; truly, we were evildoers.' | |
| 30 | And they advanced one upon another, blaming each other. | |
| 31 | They said, 'Woe, alas for us! Truly, we were insolent. | |
| 32 | It may be that our Lord will give us in exchange a better than it; to our Lord we humbly turn.' | |
| 33 | Such is the chastisement; and the chastisement of the world to come, is assuredly greater, did they but know. | |
| 34 | Surely for the godfearing shall be Gardens of Bliss with their Lord. | |
| 35 | What, shall we make those who have surrendered like to the sinners? | |
| 36 | What ails you then, how you judge? | |
| 37 | Or have you a Book wherein you study? | |
| 38 | Surely therein you shall have whatever you choose! | |
| 39 | Or have you oaths from Us, reaching to the Day of Resurrection? Surely you shall have whatever you judge! | |
| 40 | Ask them, which of them will guarantee that! | |
| 41 | Or do they have associates? Then let them bring their associates, if they speak truly. | |
| 42 | Upon the day when the leg shall be bared, and they shall be summoned to bow themselves, but they cannot; | |
| 43 | humbled shall be their eyes, and abasement shall overspread them, for they had been summoned to bow themselves while they were whole. | |
| 44 | So leave Me with him who cries lies to this discourse! We will draw them on little by little whence they know not; | |
| 45 | and I shall respite them -- assuredly My guile is sure. | |
| 46 | Or askest thou them for a wage, and so they are weighed down with debt? | |
| 47 | Or is the Unseen in their keeping, and so they are writing it down? | |
| 48 | So be thou patient under the judgment of thy Lord, and be not as the Man of the Fish, when he called, choking inwardly. | |
| 49 | Had there not overtaken him a blessing from his Lord he would have been cast upon the wilderness, being condemned. | |
| 50 | But his Lord had chosen him, and He placed him among the righteous. | |
| 51 | The unbelievers wellnigh strike thee down with their glances, when they hear the Reminder, and they say, 'Surely he is a man possessed!' | |
| 52 | And it is nothing but a Reminder unto all beings. |