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| translator = Maulana Muhammad Ali
| section = 68. The Pen (Al-Qalam)
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==== 68. The Pen (Al-Qalam) ====
{{chapter|68}}
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.l (By) the inkstand and the pen and that which they write!

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=2}} <section
begin="68:2"/>By the grace of thy Lord thou art not mad. <section
end="68:2"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=3}} <section
begin="68:3"/>And surely thine is a reward never to be cut off. <section
end="68:3"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=4}} <section
begin="68:4"/>And surely thou hast sublime morals. <section
end="68:4"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=5}} <section
begin="68:5"/>So thou wilt see, and they (too) will see, <section
end="68:5"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=6}} <section
begin="68:6"/>Which of you is mad. <section
end="68:6"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=7}} <section
begin="68:7"/>Surely thy Lord knows best who is erring from His way, and He knows best those who go aright. <section
end="68:7"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=8}} <section
begin="68:8"/>So obey not the rejectors. <section
end="68:8"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=9}} <section
begin="68:9"/>They wish that thou shouldst be pliant, so they (too) would be pliant. <section
end="68:9"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=10}} <section
begin="68:10"/>And obey not any mean swearer, <section
end="68:10"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=11}} <section
begin="68:11"/>Defamer, going about with slander, <section
end="68:11"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=12}} <section
begin="68:12"/>Hinderer of good, out-stepping the limits, sinful, <section
end="68:12"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=13}} <section
begin="68:13"/>Ignoble, besides all that, notoriously mischievous -- <section
end="68:13"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=14}} <section
begin="68:14"/>Because he possesses wealth and sons. <section
end="68:14"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=15}} <section
begin="68:15"/>When Our messages are recited to him, he says: Stories of those of yore! <section
end="68:15"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=16}} <section
begin="68:16"/>We shall brand him on the snout. <section
end="68:16"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=17}} <section
begin="68:17"/>We shall try them as We tried the owners of the garden, when they swore to pluck its fruits in the morning, <section
end="68:17"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=18}} <section
begin="68:18"/>And would not set aside a portion (for the poor). <section
end="68:18"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=19}} <section
begin="68:19"/>But a visitation from thy Lord came on it, While they slept. <section
end="68:19"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=20}} <section
begin="68:20"/>So it became as black, barren land -- <section
end="68:20"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=21}} <section
begin="68:21"/>Then they called out one to another in the morning, <section
end="68:21"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=22}} <section
begin="68:22"/>Saying: Go early to your tilth, if you would pluck (the fruit). <section
end="68:22"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=23}} <section
begin="68:23"/>So they went, while they said one to another in low tones: <section
end="68:23"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=24}} <section
begin="68:24"/>No poor man shall enter it to-day to you -- <section
end="68:24"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=25}} <section
begin="68:25"/>And in the morning they went, having the power to prevent. <section
end="68:25"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=26}} <section
begin="68:26"/>But when they saw it, they said: Surely we are in error; <section
end="68:26"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=27}} <section
begin="68:27"/>Nay, we are made to suffer privation. <section
end="68:27"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=28}} <section
begin="68:28"/>The best of them said: Said I not to you, Why do you not glorify (Allah)? <section
end="68:28"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=29}} <section
begin="68:29"/>They said: Glory be to our Lord! surely we were unjust. <section
end="68:29"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=30}} <section
begin="68:30"/>Then some of them advanced against others, blaming each other. <section
end="68:30"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=31}} <section
begin="68:31"/>Said they: O woe to us! Surely we were inordinate -- <section
end="68:31"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=32}} <section
begin="68:32"/>Maybe, our Lord will give us instead one better than it surely to our Lord we make petition. <section
end="68:32"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=33}} <section
begin="68:33"/>Such is the chastisement. And certainly the chastisement of the Hereafter is greater, did they but know! <section
end="68:33"/>

<center><nowiki>* * *</nowiki></center>{{verse|chapter=68|verse=34}} <section
begin="68:34"/>Surely the dutiful have with their Lord Gardens of bliss. <section
end="68:34"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=35}} <section
begin="68:35"/>Shall We then make those who submit as the guilty? <section
end="68:35"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=36}} <section
begin="68:36"/>What is the matter with you? How do you judge? <section
end="68:36"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=37}} <section
begin="68:37"/>Or have you a book wherein you read <section
end="68:37"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=38}} <section
begin="68:38"/>That you shall surely have therein what you choose? <section
end="68:38"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=39}} <section
begin="68:39"/>Or have you covenants from Us on oath, extending to the day of Resurrection, that yours is surely what you judge? <section
end="68:39"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=40}} <section
begin="68:40"/>Ask them which of them will vouch for that. <section
end="68:40"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=41}} <section
begin="68:41"/>Or have they associate-gods? Then let them bring their associates, if they are truthful. <section
end="68:41"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=42}} <section
begin="68:42"/>On the day when there is a severe affliction, and they are called upon to prostrate themselves, but they are not able -- <section
end="68:42"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=43}} <section
begin="68:43"/>Their looks cast down, abasement will cover them. And they were indeed called upon to prostrate themselves, while yet they were safe. <section
end="68:43"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=44}} <section
begin="68:44"/>So leave Me alone with him who rejects this announcement. We shall overtake them by degrees, from whence they know not. <section
end="68:44"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=45}} <section
begin="68:45"/>And I bear with them, surely My plan is firm. <section
end="68:45"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=46}} <section
begin="68:46"/>Or dost thou ask from them a reward, so that they are burdened with debt? <section
end="68:46"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=47}} <section
begin="68:47"/>Or is the unseen with them so that they write (it) down? <section
end="68:47"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=48}} <section
begin="68:48"/>So wait patiently for the judgment of thy Lord, and be not like the Companion of the fish, when he cried while he was in distress. <section
end="68:48"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=49}} <section
begin="68:49"/>Had not favour from his Lord reached him, he would certainly have been cast down on naked ground, while he was blamed. <section
end="68:49"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=50}} <section
begin="68:50"/>Then his Lord chose him, and He made him of the righteous. <section
end="68:50"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=51}} <section
begin="68:51"/>And those who disbelieve would almost smite thee with their eyes when they hear the Reminder, and they say: Surely he is mad! <section
end="68:51"/>

{{verse|chapter=68|verse=52}} <section
begin="68:52"/>And it is naught but a Reminder for the nations. <section
end="68:52"/>

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