بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ نٓ وَٱلْقَلَمِ وَمَا يَسْطُرُونَ
English Translation:
Nun. By the pen and what they inscribe
مَآ أَنتَ بِنِعْمَةِ رَبِّكَ بِمَجْنُونٍ
English Translation:
You are not, [O Muhammad], by the favor of your Lord, a madman
وَإِنَّ لَكَ لَأَجْرًا غَيْرَ مَمْنُونٍ
English Translation:
And indeed, for you is a reward uninterrupted
وَإِنَّكَ لَعَلَىٰ خُلُقٍ عَظِيمٍ
English Translation:
And indeed, you are of a great moral character
فَسَتُبْصِرُ وَيُبْصِرُونَ
English Translation:
So you will see and they will see
بِأَييِّكُمُ ٱلْمَفْتُونُ
English Translation:
Which of you is the afflicted [by a devil]
إِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِمَن ضَلَّ عَن سَبِيلِهِۦ وَهُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِٱلْمُهْتَدِينَ
English Translation:
Indeed, your Lord is most knowing of who has gone astray from His way, and He is most knowing of the [rightly] guided
فَلَا تُطِعِ ٱلْمُكَذِّبِينَ
English Translation:
Then do not obey the deniers
وَدُّوا۟ لَوْ تُدْهِنُ فَيُدْهِنُونَ
English Translation:
They wish that you would soften [in your position], so they would soften [toward you]
وَلَا تُطِعْ كُلَّ حَلَّافٍ مَّهِينٍ
English Translation:
And do not obey every worthless habitual swearer
هَمَّازٍ مَّشَّآءٍۭ بِنَمِيمٍ
English Translation:
[And] scorner, going about with malicious gossip
مَّنَّاعٍ لِّلْخَيْرِ مُعْتَدٍ أَثِيمٍ
English Translation:
A preventer of good, transgressing and sinful
عُتُلٍّۭ بَعْدَ ذَٰلِكَ زَنِيمٍ
English Translation:
Cruel, moreover, and an illegitimate pretender
أَن كَانَ ذَا مَالٍ وَبَنِينَ
English Translation:
Because he is a possessor of wealth and children
إِذَا تُتْلَىٰ عَلَيْهِ ءَايَٰتُنَا قَالَ أَسَٰطِيرُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ
English Translation:
When Our verses are recited to him, he says, "Legends of the former peoples
سَنَسِمُهُۥ عَلَى ٱلْخُرْطُومِ
English Translation:
We will brand him upon the snout
إِنَّا بَلَوْنَٰهُمْ كَمَا بَلَوْنَآ أَصْحَٰبَ ٱلْجَنَّةِ إِذْ أَقْسَمُوا۟ لَيَصْرِمُنَّهَا مُصْبِحِينَ
English Translation:
Indeed, We have tried them as We tried the companions of the garden, when they swore to cut its fruit in the [early] morning
وَلَا يَسْتَثْنُونَ
English Translation:
Without making exception
فَطَافَ عَلَيْهَا طَآئِفٌ مِّن رَّبِّكَ وَهُمْ نَآئِمُونَ
English Translation:
So there came upon the garden an affliction from your Lord while they were asleep
فَأَصْبَحَتْ كَٱلصَّرِيمِ
English Translation:
And it became as though reaped
فَتَنَادَوْا۟ مُصْبِحِينَ
English Translation:
And they called one another at morning
أَنِ ٱغْدُوا۟ عَلَىٰ حَرْثِكُمْ إِن كُنتُمْ صَٰرِمِينَ
English Translation:
[Saying], "Go early to your crop if you would cut the fruit
فَٱنطَلَقُوا۟ وَهُمْ يَتَخَٰفَتُونَ
English Translation:
So they set out, while lowering their voices
أَن لَّا يَدْخُلَنَّهَا ٱلْيَوْمَ عَلَيْكُم مِّسْكِينٌ
English Translation:
[Saying], "There will surely not enter it today upon you [any] poor person
وَغَدَوْا۟ عَلَىٰ حَرْدٍ قَٰدِرِينَ
English Translation:
And they went early in determination, [assuming themselves] able
فَلَمَّا رَأَوْهَا قَالُوٓا۟ إِنَّا لَضَآلُّونَ
English Translation:
But when they saw it, they said, "Indeed, we are lost
بَلْ نَحْنُ مَحْرُومُونَ
English Translation:
Rather, we have been deprived
قَالَ أَوْسَطُهُمْ أَلَمْ أَقُل لَّكُمْ لَوْلَا تُسَبِّحُونَ
English Translation:
The most moderate of them said, "Did I not say to you, 'Why do you not exalt [Allah]
قَالُوا۟ سُبْحَٰنَ رَبِّنَآ إِنَّا كُنَّا ظَٰلِمِينَ
English Translation:
They said, "Exalted is our Lord! Indeed, we were wrongdoers
فَأَقْبَلَ بَعْضُهُمْ عَلَىٰ بَعْضٍ يَتَلَٰوَمُونَ
English Translation:
Then they approached one another, blaming each other
قَالُوا۟ يَٰوَيْلَنَآ إِنَّا كُنَّا طَٰغِينَ
English Translation:
They said, "O woe to us; indeed we were transgressors
عَسَىٰ رَبُّنَآ أَن يُبْدِلَنَا خَيْرًا مِّنْهَآ إِنَّآ إِلَىٰ رَبِّنَا رَٰغِبُونَ
English Translation:
Perhaps our Lord will substitute for us [one] better than it. Indeed, we are toward our Lord desirous
كَذَٰلِكَ ٱلْعَذَابُ وَلَعَذَابُ ٱلْءَاخِرَةِ أَكْبَرُ لَوْ كَانُوا۟ يَعْلَمُونَ
English Translation:
Such is the punishment [of this world]. And the punishment of the Hereafter is greater, if they only knew
إِنَّ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ عِندَ رَبِّهِمْ جَنَّٰتِ ٱلنَّعِيمِ
English Translation:
Indeed, for the righteous with their Lord are the Gardens of Pleasure
أَفَنَجْعَلُ ٱلْمُسْلِمِينَ كَٱلْمُجْرِمِينَ
English Translation:
Then will We treat the Muslims like the criminals
مَا لَكُمْ كَيْفَ تَحْكُمُونَ
English Translation:
What is [the matter] with you? How do you judge
أَمْ لَكُمْ كِتَٰبٌ فِيهِ تَدْرُسُونَ
English Translation:
Or do you have a scripture in which you learn
إِنَّ لَكُمْ فِيهِ لَمَا تَخَيَّرُونَ
English Translation:
That indeed for you is whatever you choose
أَمْ لَكُمْ أَيْمَٰنٌ عَلَيْنَا بَٰلِغَةٌ إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ إِنَّ لَكُمْ لَمَا تَحْكُمُونَ
English Translation:
Or do you have oaths [binding] upon Us, extending until the Day of Resurrection, that indeed for you is whatever you judge
سَلْهُمْ أَيُّهُم بِذَٰلِكَ زَعِيمٌ
English Translation:
Ask them which of them, for that [claim], is responsible
أَمْ لَهُمْ شُرَكَآءُ فَلْيَأْتُوا۟ بِشُرَكَآئِهِمْ إِن كَانُوا۟ صَٰدِقِينَ
English Translation:
Or do they have partners? Then let them bring their partners, if they should be truthful
يَوْمَ يُكْشَفُ عَن سَاقٍ وَيُدْعَوْنَ إِلَى ٱلسُّجُودِ فَلَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ
English Translation:
The Day the shin will be uncovered and they are invited to prostration but the disbelievers will not be able
خَٰشِعَةً أَبْصَٰرُهُمْ تَرْهَقُهُمْ ذِلَّةٌ وَقَدْ كَانُوا۟ يُدْعَوْنَ إِلَى ٱلسُّجُودِ وَهُمْ سَٰلِمُونَ
English Translation:
Their eyes humbled, humiliation will cover them. And they used to be invited to prostration while they were sound
فَذَرْنِى وَمَن يُكَذِّبُ بِهَٰذَا ٱلْحَدِيثِ سَنَسْتَدْرِجُهُم مِّنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ
English Translation:
So leave Me, [O Muhammad], with [the matter of] whoever denies the Qur'an. We will progressively lead them [to punishment] from where they do not know
وَأُمْلِى لَهُمْ إِنَّ كَيْدِى مَتِينٌ
English Translation:
And I will give them time. Indeed, My plan is firm
أَمْ تَسْـَٔلُهُمْ أَجْرًا فَهُم مِّن مَّغْرَمٍ مُّثْقَلُونَ
English Translation:
Or do you ask of them a payment, so they are by debt burdened down
أَمْ عِندَهُمُ ٱلْغَيْبُ فَهُمْ يَكْتُبُونَ
English Translation:
Or have they [knowledge of] the unseen, so they write [it] down
فَٱصْبِرْ لِحُكْمِ رَبِّكَ وَلَا تَكُن كَصَاحِبِ ٱلْحُوتِ إِذْ نَادَىٰ وَهُوَ مَكْظُومٌ
English Translation:
Then be patient for the decision of your Lord, [O Muhammad], and be not like the companion of the fish when he called out while he was distressed
لَّوْلَآ أَن تَدَٰرَكَهُۥ نِعْمَةٌ مِّن رَّبِّهِۦ لَنُبِذَ بِٱلْعَرَآءِ وَهُوَ مَذْمُومٌ
English Translation:
If not that a favor from his Lord overtook him, he would have been thrown onto the naked shore while he was censured
فَٱجْتَبَٰهُ رَبُّهُۥ فَجَعَلَهُۥ مِنَ ٱلصَّٰلِحِينَ
English Translation:
And his Lord chose him and made him of the righteous
وَإِن يَكَادُ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ لَيُزْلِقُونَكَ بِأَبْصَٰرِهِمْ لَمَّا سَمِعُوا۟ ٱلذِّكْرَ وَيَقُولُونَ إِنَّهُۥ لَمَجْنُونٌ
English Translation:
And indeed, those who disbelieve would almost make you slip with their eyes when they hear the message, and they say, "Indeed, he is mad
وَمَا هُوَ إِلَّا ذِكْرٌ لِّلْعَٰلَمِينَ
English Translation:
But it is not except a reminder to the worlds