| | Farook Malik rendition of Surah The Pen(al-Qalam)
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| 68:1 | | Nun. By the pen and what they write |
| 68:2 | | By the grace of your Lord you are not a madman |
| 68:3 | | and you shall have a never ending reward |
| 68:4 | | You are of the highest noble character |
| 68:5 | | Soon you will see - as they will se |
| 68:6 | | - which of you is afflicted with madness |
| 68:7 | | Surely it is your Lord Who knows those who have strayed from His Way, as He knows best those who are rightly guided |
| 68:8 | | So do not yield to the unbelievers |
| 68:9 | | They desire you to compromise a little, so they too would compromise |
| 68:10 | | Neither yield to any mean oath-monger |
| 68:11 | | mischief making slanderer |
| 68:12 | | opponent of good, transgressor |
| 68:13 | | wicked oppressor, and above all, ignoble by birth |
| 68:14 | | though he be possessing wealth and children |
| 68:15 | | When Our revelations are recited to him , he says: "They are nothing but the tales of the ancients." |
| 68:16 | | Soon We shall brand him on the snout |
| 68:17 | | Surely We shall try them as We tried the owners of the garden when they swore that they would pluck its fruit the next morning |
| 68:18 | | without adding any reservation ( such as God willing) |
| 68:19 | | So a calamity from your Lord came down upon it while they slept |
| 68:20 | | and by the morning it lay as if it had been already harvested |
| 68:21 | | At daybreak they called out to one another |
| 68:22 | | saying: "Go out early to your crop, if you want to pick its fruit." |
| 68:23 | | So they went, whispering to one another |
| 68:24 | | Let no needy person enter upon you in the garden today |
| 68:25 | | Thus they went out, fixed in their stingy resolve (not to give any fruit to the poor people, as if they had the full control over harvesting the fruit) |
| 68:26 | | But when they saw the garden, they cried: "Surely we must have lost our way |
| 68:27 | | Nay, we have become destitute." |
| 68:28 | | The most upright among them said: "Did I not tell you to glorify Allah? Why did you not glorify Him?" |
| 68:29 | | Then they said: "Glory be to our Lord! Surely we were unjust," |
| 68:30 | | and they started blaming one another |
| 68:31 | | Finally they said: "Woe to us! Surely we had become rebellious |
| 68:32 | | It may be that our Lord will give us in exchange a better garden than this: surely to our Lord do we make our humble petition." |
| 68:33 | | Such is the punishment in this life; but the punishment in the Hereafter is even greater, if they but knew it |
| 68:34 | | Surely the righteous will be rewarded with gardens of delight by their Lord |
| 68:35 | | What do the disbelievers think? Shall We treat the Muslims as We treat the guilty |
| 68:36 | | What is the matter with you? What kind of Judgment do you make |
| 68:37 | | Or do you have a Book in which you read |
| 68:38 | | that you shall be given whatever you choose |
| 68:39 | | Or do you have a sworn covenant - a covenant binding on Us till the Day of Resurrection - that you shall have whatever you demand |
| 68:40 | | Ask if any of them will vouch for that |
| 68:41 | | Or do they have other gods who could help them against Allah? If so, let them produce their other gods if they are truthful |
| 68:42 | | On the Day of Judgment, when the dreadful events shall be unfolded, and they shall be asked to prostrate themselves, they shall not be able to do so |
| 68:43 | | They shall stand with eyes downcast, utterly humbled; because during their safe and sound earthly life they were called upon to prostrate themselves but they refused to do so |
| 68:44 | | O Prophet, leave to Me those who reject this revelation. We shall lead them step by step to their ruin, in ways that they cannot perceive |
| 68:45 | | I shall even put up with them for a while; for My plan is fool proof |
| 68:46 | | Or have you, O Prophet, demanded a compensation from them, that they are overburdened with debt |
| 68:47 | | Or do they have the knowledge of the unseen and they are writing it down |
| 68:48 | | So wait with patience for the Judgment of your Lord and be not like the man of the fish (reference is to the Prophet Jonah who was swallowed by a whale), who cried when he was in distres |
| 68:49 | | Had his Lord not bestowed on him His grace, he would certainly have been cast off on the naked shore, while he was condemned |
| 68:50 | | But his Lord choose him and included him among the righteous |
| 68:51 | | The unbelievers would almost trip you up with their eyes when they hear Our revelations (The Qur’an), and say: "He (Muhammad) is surely crazy." |
| 68:52 | | This (The Qur’an) is nothing but a Reminder to all the people of the world |
