Audio: Al-Qalam – The Pen (Allah Version)
Length: 3 mins, 53 secs
In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful.
68:1. Noon. By the pen, and by what they inscribe.
68:2. By the grace of your Lord, you are not insane.
68:3. In fact, you will have a reward that will never end.
68:4. And you are of a great moral character.
68:5. You will see, and they will see.
68:6. Which of you is the afflicted.
68:7. Your Lord knows best who has strayed from His path, and He knows best the well-guided.
68:8. So do not obey the deniers.
68:9. They would like you to compromise, so they would compromise.
68:10. And do not obey any vile swearer.
68:11. Backbiter, spreader of slander.
68:12. Preventer of good, transgressor, sinner.
68:13. Rude and fake besides.
68:14. Just because he has money and children.
68:15. When Our Verses are recited to him, he says, “Myths of the ancients!”
68:16. We will brand him on the muzzle.
68:17. We tested them, as We tested the owners of the garden, when they vowed to harvest it in the morning.
68:18. Without any reservation.
68:19. But a calamity from your Lord went around it while they slept.
68:20. And in the morning it was as if picked.
68:21. In the morning, they called to one another.
68:22. “Go early to your plantation, if you are going to harvest.”
68:23. So off they went, murmuring to one another.
68:24. “No poor person is to enter it upon you today.”
68:25. And early they went, resolved in intent.
68:26. But when they saw it, they said, “We were wrong.
68:27. We are now deprived.”
68:28. The most reasonable of them said, “Did I not say to you, ‘if only you would glorify?’”
68:29. They said, “Glory to our Lord—We were indeed in the wrong.”
68:30. Then they turned to one another, blaming one another.
68:31. They said, “Woe to us—we were indeed domineering.
68:32. Perhaps our Lord will give us a better substitute for it. We are turning to our Lord.”
68:33. Such is the punishment; but the punishment of the Hereafter is greater, if they only knew.
68:34. For the righteous are Gardens of Delight with their Lord.
68:35. Shall We treat the Muslims like the villains?
68:36. What is the matter with you? How do you judge?
68:37. Or do you have a scripture in which you study.
68:38. Wherein there is whatever you choose?
68:39. Or do you have oaths from Us, binding until the Day of Resurrection, that you will have whatever you demand?
68:40. Ask them, which of them will guarantee that.
68:41. Or do they have partners? Then let them produce their partners, if they are truthful.
68:42. On the Day when the Shin will be exposed, and they will be called to bow down, but they will be unable.
68:43. Their eyes subdued, shame will cover them. They were invited to bow down when they were sound.
68:44. So leave Me to those who reject this discourse; We will proceed against them gradually, from where they do not know.
68:45. And I will give them respite. My plan is firm.
68:46. Or do you ask them for a fee, so they are burdened with debt?
68:47. Or do they know the future, and so they write it down?
68:48. So wait patiently for the Decision of your Lord, and do not be like the Fellow of the Fish who cried out in despair.
68:49. Were it not for his Lord’s favor that reached him, he would have been thrown into the wilderness, fully despised.
68:50. But his Lord chose him, and made him one of the righteous.
68:51. Those who disbelieve almost stab you with their glances when they hear the message, and say, “He is crazy!”
68:52. But it is no less than a reminder to all the Worlds.