| | Ahmed Hulusi rendition of Surah The Pen(al-Qalam)
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| 68:1 | | By Nun (the knowledge of Uluhiyyah) and the Pen (Qalam; the discloser of the knowledge) and everything it inscribes (the creator of the detailed manifestation of the knowledge as the sunnatullah)... |
| 68:2 | | You are not, by the favor of your Rabb, possessed (by invisible beings; the jinn)! |
| 68:3 | | Indeed, there is uninterrupted reward for you. |
| 68:4 | | And indeed, you are of a great morality! |
| 68:5 | | Soon you will see and they will see; |
| 68:6 | | Who the possessed ones are! |
| 68:7 | | Indeed, your Rabb knows well (from their being) who has gone astray from His way. And He knows well who has attained the reality (as He is present within their being)! |
| 68:8 | | So do not follow the deniers! |
| 68:9 | | They wished that you would soften in your approach (compromise), so they can show tolerance (to you)! |
| 68:10 | | Do not conform to every base and imprudent habitual swearer (as they are cocooned from Allah and the sunnatullah); |
| 68:11 | | Who mocks, reproaches and gossips; |
| 68:12 | | Who prevents the experience of (the reality) and is guilty of transgression; |
| 68:13 | | Stingy, ignorant and moreover branded with disbelief! |
| 68:14 | | (Will you obey him) just because he has wealth and children! |
| 68:15 | | When he was informed of Our verses he said, “Legends of the former people.” |
| 68:16 | | Soon We shall brand him by his nose (he will not be able to overlook the Truth)! |
| 68:17 | | Indeed, We afflicted them as We afflicted the people of the garden. When they vowed to harvest in the morning. |
| 68:18 | | Without saying “If Allah wills”... |
| 68:19 | | So a calamity befell the garden as they slept. |
| 68:20 | | And it (the garden) dried and blackened! |
| 68:21 | | (When they awoke) in the morning they called out to one another: |
| 68:22 | | “Go early to the crops if you are going to cut and pick.” |
| 68:23 | | So they set out, whispering among themselves: |
| 68:24 | | “There shall not enter (the garden) today any poor person!” |
| 68:25 | | They set out, assuming they had the power to prevent the poor. |
| 68:26 | | But when they saw the garden (destroyed), they said, “We must have come to the wrong place.” |
| 68:27 | | “No (this is the right place), but we have incurred loss!” |
| 68:28 | | The most reasonable one among them said, “Did I not tell you to exalt (tasbih; fulfill your servitude to your Rabb)?” |
| 68:29 | | They said, “Our Rabb is Subhan! Indeed, we have fallen short of giving your due!” |
| 68:30 | | And they turned to each other and began to blame each other! |
| 68:31 | | They said, “Woe to us! Indeed, we have been insolent!” |
| 68:32 | | “Perhaps our Rabb will give in its stead one that is better! Indeed, we are (now) of those who turn to their Rabb.” |
| 68:33 | | Such is the suffering! And the suffering of the eternal life to come is even greater! If only they knew... |
| 68:34 | | Indeed, for those who protect themselves there are Paradises of Bliss with their Rabb. |
| 68:35 | | Will we treat those who have submitted (the Muslims) like those guilty of denial? |
| 68:36 | | What is wrong with you! How do you judge? |
| 68:37 | | Or do you have a book from which you learn? |
| 68:38 | | By which you are given the commands that you like (and assume you are not in compliance with the sunnatullah)! |
| 68:39 | | Or have you received a word from Us, valid until the Doomsday, that you are free to do what you like? |
| 68:40 | | Ask them which of them takes responsibility for this (claim)? |
| 68:41 | | Or do they have partners that they associate with Us? Let them bring their partners if they are truthful! |
| 68:42 | | The time when the reality becomes manifest and they are invited to prostrate (confess the nonexistence of their assumed separate existence) they will be unable to do so! |
| 68:43 | | Their eyes humbled with terror, humiliated! Whereas they used to be invited to prostrate while they were sound and in the world. |
| 68:44 | | (My Rasul) leave Me to deal (alone) with those who deny! We shall gradually take them to ruin from where they know not! |
| 68:45 | | And I give them time... But indeed, my trap is firm! |
| 68:46 | | Or do you ask from them a return by which they feel indebted and burdened? |
| 68:47 | | Or do they have (knowledge of) the unknown (the unperceivable) which they write? |
| 68:48 | | Be patient for the judgment of your Rabb and do not be like the companion of the fish (Jonah, the Nabi)! How he had turned in distress. |
| 68:49 | | If the favor of your Rabb had not reached him he would have been thrown onto the naked shore, debased! |
| 68:50 | | But his Rabb chose him and made him of the righteous (the experiencers of the reality). |
| 68:51 | | Indeed, those who deny the knowledge of the reality were about to knock you down with their looks when they heard the reminder (of their reality; dhikr) saying, “Indeed, he is possessed (under the influence of the jinn).” |
| 68:52 | | Whereas it is only a reminder to the people (of their essential reality)! |
