IslamAwakened.com Qur'an Tafsir of Surah al-Qalam - The Pen as rendered by Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
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N]n! By the pen and what they inscribe:
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Thou art not, by the divine blessing of thy Lord, one who is possessed.
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And, truly, there is for thee certainly, compensation, that which is unfailing.
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And, truly, thou art of sublime morals.
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Thou wilt perceive and they will perceive
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which of you is the one who is demented.
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Truly, thy Lord, He is greater in knowledge of whoever went astray from His Way and He is greater in knowledge of ones who are truly guided.
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Then, obey not ones who deny.
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They wished that thou wouldst compromise with them and they would compromise with thee.
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But obey thou not every worthless swearer, defamer,
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one who goes about with slander, slandering,
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who delays good, a sinful, exceeder of limits,
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cruel and after that, ignoble,
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because he had been possessor of wealth and children.
68:15
When Our signs are recounted to him, he said: Fables of the ancient ones!
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We will mark him on the snout!
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Truly, We tried them as We tried the Companions of the Garden when they swore an oath that they would pluck fruit, in that which is happening in the morning.
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They make no exception by saying if God wills.
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Then, a visitation from thy Lord visited it while they were ones who sleep,
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in that which is happening in the morning, it was like a plucked garden!
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And they called to one another in that which is morning:
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Set forth in the early morning dawn to your cultivation if you had been ones who pluck fruit.
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So they set out and they whisper, saying:
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There will, truly, not enter it today on you any needy person.
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And they set forth in the early morning, designing, assuming they were ones who have the power.
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But when they saw it, they said: We are, certainly, ones who go astray!
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Nay! We are ones who are deprived.
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The most moderate of them said: Say I not to you: Why glorify you not God?
68:29
They said: Glory be to God, our Lord! Truly, we had been ones who are unjust.
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Then, they came forward, some with some others blaming one another.
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They said: O woe be to us! Truly, we had been ones who are defiant.
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Perhaps our Lord will cause to exchange for us better than it. Truly, we are ones who quest our Lord.
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Thus, this is the punishment of this present life, but the punishment of the world to come is greater, if they had been knowing!
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Truly, for ones who are Godfearing are Gardens of Bliss with their Lord.
68:35
Will We make ones who submit to God as ones who sin?
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What is the matter with you? How you give judgment!
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Or have you a Book by which you study
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that you will have in it whatever you specify?
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Or are there oaths from Us, ones that reach through to the Day of Resurrection providing that you will have what you yourselves give as judgment?
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Ask them, then, which of them will be a guarantor for that.
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Or have they ones they ascribe as associate with God? Then, let them approach with their ascribed associates if they had been ones who are sincere.
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On a Day the great calamity will be uncovered and they will be called to prostration, then, they will not be able to do so.
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Their sight will be that which is humbled. Abasement will come over them and they had before this been called to prostration while they were ones who are healthy.
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So forsake Me and whoever denies this discourse. We will draw them on gradually from where they know not
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and I will grant indulgence to them. Truly, My cunning is sure.
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Or hast thou asked them for a compensation, so that they would be weighed down from something owed?
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Or have they knowledge of the unseen with them so that they write it down?
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So be thou patient until the determination of thy Lord and be not like the Companion of the Great Fish when he cried out, one who is suppressed by grief.
68:49
If a divine blessing not followed him one after another, from His Lord he would be cast forth on the naked shore while he was one who is condemned.
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But his Lord elected him and made him among the ones in accord with morality.
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It was almost as if those who were ungrateful looked at thee sternly with their sight when they heard the Remembrance, and they say: He is one who is possessed!
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And it is, certainly, not but a Remembrance to the worlds.
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