Al-Qalam
القلم
The Pen · 52 ayahs
- 1
نٓ ۚ وَٱلْقَلَمِ وَمَا يَسْطُرُونَ
Nun. By the pen and what the scribes write.
- 2
مَآ أَنتَ بِنِعْمَةِ رَبِّكَ بِمَجْنُونٍ
By your Lord's Grace, you are not afflicted with madness,
- 3
وَإِنَّ لَكَ لَأَجْرًا غَيْرَ مَمْنُونٍ
and surely yours shall be a never-ending reward,
- 4
وَإِنَّكَ لَعَلَىٰ خُلُقٍ عَظِيمٍ
and you are certainly on the most exalted standard of moral excellence.
- 5
فَسَتُبْصِرُ وَيُبْصِرُونَ
So you will soon see, and they too will see,
- 6
بِأَييِّكُمُ ٱلْمَفْتُونُ
which of you is afflicted with madness.
- 7
إِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِمَن ضَلَّ عَن سَبِيلِهِۦ وَهُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِٱلْمُهْتَدِينَ
Surely your Lord knows well those who have strayed from His Way just as He knows well those who are on the Right Way.
- 8
فَلَا تُطِعِ ٱلْمُكَذِّبِينَ
Do not, then, yield to those who reject the Truth, decrying it as false;
- 9
وَدُّوا۟ لَوْ تُدْهِنُ فَيُدْهِنُونَ
they would wish you to be pliant so that they too may be pliant.
- 10
وَلَا تُطِعْ كُلَّ حَلَّافٍ مَّهِينٍ
And do not yield to any contemptible swearer,