Chapter 68: Surah Al Qalam (The Pen) - Imam Faizal

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
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Noon. I swear by the pen and what the angels write,
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By the grace of your Lord you are not mad.
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And most surely you shall have a reward never to be cut off.
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And most surely you conform (yourself) to sublime morality.
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So you shall see, and they (too) shall see,
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Which of you is afflicted with madness.
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Surely your Lord best knows him who errs from His way, and He best knows the followers of the right course.
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So do not yield to the rejecters.
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They wish that you should be pliant so they (too) would be pliant.
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And yield not to any mean swearer
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Defamer, going about with slander
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Forbidder of good, outstepping the limits, sinful,
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Ignoble, besides all that, base-born;
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Because he possesses wealth and sons.
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When Our communications are recited to him, he says: Stories of those of yore.
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We will brand him on the nose.
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Surely We will try them as We tried the owners of the garden, when they swore that they would certainly cut off the produce in the morning,
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And were not willing to set aside a portion (for the poor).
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Then there encompassed it a visitation from your Lord while they were sleeping.
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So it became as black, barren land.
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And they called out to each other in the morning,
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Saying: Go early to your tilth if you would cut (the produce).
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So they went, while they consulted together secretly,
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Saying: No poor man shall enter it today upon you.
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And in the morning they went, having the power to prevent.
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But when they saw it, they said: Most surely we have gone astray
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Nay! we are made to suffer privation.
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The best of them said: Did I not say to you, Why do you not glorify (Allah)?
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They said: Glory be to our Lord, surely we were unjust.
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Then some of them advanced against others, blaming each other.
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Said they: O woe to us! surely we were inordinate:
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Maybe, our Lord will give us instead one better than it; surely to our Lord do we make our humble petition.
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Such is the chastisement, and certainly the chastisement of the hereafter is greater, did they but know!
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Surely those who guard (against evil) shall have with their Lord gardens of bliss.
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What! shall We then make (i.e. treat) those who submit as the guilty?
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What has happened to you? How do you judge?
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Or have you a book wherein you read,
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That you have surely therein what you choose?
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Or have you received from Us an agreement confirmed by an oath extending to the day of resurrection that you shall surely have what you demand?
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Ask them which of them will vouch for that,
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Or have.they associates if they are truthful.
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On the day when there shall be a severe affliction, and they shall be called upon to make obeisance, but they shall not be able,
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Their looks cast down, abasement shall overtake them; and they were called upon to make obeisance indeed while yet they were safe.
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So leave Me and him who rejects this announcement; We will overtake them by degrees, from whence they perceive not:
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And I do bear with them, surely My plan is firm.
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Or do you ask from them a reward, so that they are burdened with debt?
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Or have they (the knowledge of) the unseen, so that they write (it) down?
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So wait patiently for the judgment of your Lord, and be not like the companion of the fish, when he cried while he was in distress.
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Were it not that favor from his Lord had overtaken him, he would certainly have been cast down upon the naked Found while he was blamed.
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Then his Lord chose him, and He made him of the good.
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And those who disbelieve would almost smite you with their eyes when they hear the reminder, and they say: Most surely he is mad.
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And it is naught but a reminder to the nations.