| | Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi) rendition of Surah The Pen(al-Qalam)
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| 68:1 | | By the pen and by that which they (angels) write. |
| 68:2 | | You are not. by the grace of your Lord, mad. |
| 68:3 | | And certainly, for you there is an endless reward. |
| 68:4 | | And undoubtedly, you possess excellent manners. |
| 68:5 | | Then now you shall soon see and they shall also see; |
| 68:6 | | As to which of you was caught with madness. |
| 68:7 | | Undoubtedly, your Lord knows well him who goes astray from His path, and He knows well those who are guided |
| 68:8 | | Therefore, hear not the words of the beliers. |
| 68:9 | | They desire that any how you should be appeased then they too would be appeased. |
| 68:10 | | And hear not any such one who is a big swearer the mean. |
| 68:11 | | One who taunts a lot, going around with slander. |
| 68:12 | | Forbidder of good, transgressor, sinful. |
| 68:13 | | Ill-mannered, and moreover his birth is faulty. |
| 68:14 | | This is because he possesses some wealth and children. |
| 68:15 | | When Our signs are recited to him, he says 'stories of the ancients'. |
| 68:16 | | We shall soon brand upon his swine like snout. |
| 68:17 | | Undoubtedly, We have tried them as We tried the owners of the garden when they swore that they would certainly reap their crop in the morning. |
| 68:18 | | And they said not 'if Allah please'. |
| 68:19 | | Then something going round from your Lord went round it while they were asleep. |
| 68:20 | | And in the morning it was as it were fruits plucked. |
| 68:21 | | Then they called one another in the morning. |
| 68:22 | | Saying, 'go to your fields early in the morning if you are going to reap'. |
| 68:23 | | And they went forth early in the morning, whispering together. |
| 68:24 | | That no needy person should come in your garden today. |
| 68:25 | | And they went forth early in the morning, determined upon their purpose. |
| 68:26 | | But when they saw it, they said, 'undoubtedly, we have lost our way'. |
| 68:27 | | Nay, rather we have been deprived of every thing. |
| 68:28 | | The most moderate of them said, "Did I not say to you, why do you not glorify Allah? " |
| 68:29 | | They said, 'Glory is to our Lord, undoubtedly, we had been unjust. |
| 68:30 | | Now one turned towards other reproaching. |
| 68:31 | | They said, 'Ah! Woe to us, undoubtedly, we were contumacious. |
| 68:32 | | It may be that our Lord will give us in exchange a better than it, we do humbly turn to our Lord. |
| 68:33 | | Such is the punishment, and the punishment of the Hereafter is far greater. What a good thing it was, if they knew? |
| 68:34 | | Undoubtedly, for the God fearing, there are Gardens of Bliss with their Lord. |
| 68:35 | | Shall We make the muslims like the culprits? |
| 68:36 | | What happened to you? How you judge? |
| 68:37 | | Have you any Book wherein you read? |
| 68:38 | | That you shall have in it whatever you choose? |
| 68:39 | | Or have you some oaths from Us, reaching to the Day of Resurrection that you shall have all that you claim? |
| 68:40 | | Ask them which of them is guarantor thereof? |
| 68:41 | | Or have they some associates? Let them, then bring their associates, if they are truthful. |
| 68:42 | | The day when a leg shall be exposed (the meaning is known to Allah) and they will be called upon to prostrate themselves, they will not be able to do so. |
| 68:43 | | Their eyes will be cast down, and humiliation will be covering them, and they were indeed called upon to prostrate themselves in the world when they were sound healthy. |
| 68:44 | | So leave him to Me, who belies this word. Soon We shall draw them step by step whence they know not. |
| 68:45 | | And I shall grant them respite, undoubtedly, My secret planning is very strong. |
| 68:46 | | Or do you ask them a wage so that they are laden with debt? |
| 68:47 | | Or is the unseen with them so that they are writing? |
| 68:48 | | Therefore wait for the command of your Lord and be not as the Man of the Fish when he called out while his heart was choking. |
| 68:49 | | Had not the favour of his Lord reached him for his care, he would have surely been cast upon land blamed. |
| 68:50 | | Then his Lord chose him and made him of His near ones. |
| 68:51 | | And it seems that the infidels with their bad looks will necessarily, stumble you when they hear Quran and they say, 'He is surely faraway from wisdom'. |
| 68:52 | | And it is not, but an admonition for the worlds |
