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Surat Al-Qalam (The Pen) - سورة القلم

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Nun. By the pen and what they inscribe,

68:2

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You are not, [O Muhammad], by the favor of your Lord, a madman.

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And indeed, for you is a reward uninterrupted.

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And indeed, you are of a great moral character.

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68:5

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So you will see and they will see

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68:6

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Which of you is the afflicted [by a devil].

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68:7

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Indeed, your Lord is most knowing of who has gone astray from His way, and He is most knowing of the [rightly] guided.

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68:8

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Then do not obey the deniers.

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68:9

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They wish that you would soften [in your position], so they would soften [toward you].

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And do not obey every worthless habitual swearer

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[And] scorner, going about with malicious gossip -

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A preventer of good, transgressing and sinful,

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Cruel, moreover, and an illegitimate pretender.

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Because he is a possessor of wealth and children,

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When Our verses are recited to him, he says, "Legends of the former peoples."

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We will brand him upon the snout.

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Indeed, We have tried them as We tried the companions of the garden, when they swore to cut its fruit in the [early] morning

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Without making exception.

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68:19

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So there came upon the garden an affliction from your Lord while they were asleep.

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And it became as though reaped.

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And they called one another at morning,

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[Saying], "Go early to your crop if you would cut the fruit."

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So they set out, while lowering their voices,

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[Saying], "There will surely not enter it today upon you [any] poor person."

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And they went early in determination, [assuming themselves] able.

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But when they saw it, they said, "Indeed, we are lost;

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Rather, we have been deprived."

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The most moderate of them said, "Did I not say to you, 'Why do you not exalt [ Allah ]?' "

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They said, "Exalted is our Lord! Indeed, we were wrongdoers."

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Then they approached one another, blaming each other.

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They said, "O woe to us; indeed we were transgressors.

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Perhaps our Lord will substitute for us [one] better than it. Indeed, we are toward our Lord desirous."

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Such is the punishment [of this world]. And the punishment of the Hereafter is greater, if they only knew.

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Indeed, for the righteous with their Lord are the Gardens of Pleasure.

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Then will We treat the Muslims like the criminals?

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What is [the matter] with you? How do you judge?

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Or do you have a scripture in which you learn

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That indeed for you is whatever you choose?

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Or do you have oaths [binding] upon Us, extending until the Day of Resurrection, that indeed for you is whatever you judge?

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Ask them which of them, for that [claim], is responsible.

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Or do they have partners? Then let them bring their partners, if they should be truthful.

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The Day the shin will be uncovered and they are invited to prostration but the disbelievers will not be able,

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Their eyes humbled, humiliation will cover them. And they used to be invited to prostration while they were sound.

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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.

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And I will give them time. Indeed, My plan is firm.

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Or do you ask of them a payment, so they are by debt burdened down?

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Or have they [knowledge of] the unseen, so they write [it] down?

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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.

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If not that a favor from his Lord overtook him, he would have been thrown onto the naked shore while he was censured.

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And his Lord chose him and made him of the righteous.