Surah 68

نٓ ۚ وَٱلْقَلَمِ وَمَا يَسْطُرُونَ
Nũn. By the pen and what everyone writes!
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مَآ أَنتَ بِنِعْمَةِ رَبِّكَ بِمَجْنُونٍ
By the grace of your Lord, you ˹O Prophet˺ are not insane.
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وَإِنَّ لَكَ لَأَجْرًا غَيْرَ مَمْنُونٍ
You will certainly have a never-ending reward.
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وَإِنَّكَ لَعَلَىٰ خُلُقٍ عَظِيمٍ
And you are truly ˹a man˺ of outstanding character.
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فَسَتُبْصِرُ وَيُبْصِرُونَ
Soon you and the pagans will see,
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بِأَييِّكُمُ ٱلْمَفْتُونُ
which of you is mad.
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إِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِمَن ضَلَّ عَن سَبِيلِهِۦ وَهُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِٱلْمُهْتَدِينَ
Surely your Lord ˹alone˺ knows best who has strayed from His Way and who is ˹rightly˺ guided.
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فَلَا تُطِعِ ٱلْمُكَذِّبِينَ
So do not give in to the deniers.
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وَدُّوا۟ لَوْ تُدْهِنُ فَيُدْهِنُونَ
They wish you would compromise so they would yield ˹to you˺.
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وَلَا تُطِعْ كُلَّ حَلَّافٍ مَّهِينٍ
And do not obey the despicable, vain oath-taker,
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هَمَّازٍ مَّشَّآءٍۭ بِنَمِيمٍ
slanderer, gossip-monger,
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مَّنَّاعٍ لِّلْخَيْرِ مُعْتَدٍ أَثِيمٍ
withholder of good, transgressor, evildoer,
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عُتُلٍّۭ بَعْدَ ذَٰلِكَ زَنِيمٍ
brute, and—on top of all that—an illegitimate child.
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أَن كَانَ ذَا مَالٍ وَبَنِينَ
Now, ˹simply˺ because he has been blessed with ˹abundant˺ wealth and children,
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إِذَا تُتْلَىٰ عَلَيْهِ ءَايَـٰتُنَا قَالَ أَسَـٰطِيرُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ
whenever Our revelations are recited to him, he says, “Ancient fables!”
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سَنَسِمُهُۥ عَلَى ٱلْخُرْطُومِ
We will soon mark his snout.1 
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إِنَّا بَلَوْنَـٰهُمْ كَمَا بَلَوْنَآ أَصْحَـٰبَ ٱلْجَنَّةِ إِذْ أَقْسَمُوا۟ لَيَصْرِمُنَّهَا مُصْبِحِينَ
Indeed, We have tested those ˹Meccans˺ as We tested the owners of the garden—when they swore they would surely harvest ˹all˺ its fruit in the early morning,
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وَلَا يَسْتَثْنُونَ
leaving no thought for Allah’s Will.1
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فَطَافَ عَلَيْهَا طَآئِفٌ مِّن رَّبِّكَ وَهُمْ نَآئِمُونَ
Then it was struck by a torment from your Lord while they slept,
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فَأَصْبَحَتْ كَٱلصَّرِيمِ
so it was reduced to ashes.
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