Al-Quran/Surah 68

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بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ

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68:1

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ ن وَالْقَلَمِ وَمَا يَسْطُرُونَ

Noon. By the pen, and by what they inscribe.
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68:2

مَا أَنْتَ بِنِعْمَةِ رَبِّكَ بِمَجْنُونٍ

By the grace of your Lord, you are not insane.
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68:3

وَإِنَّ لَكَ لَأَجْرًا غَيْرَ مَمْنُونٍ

In fact, you will have a reward that will never end.
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68:4

وَإِنَّكَ لَعَلَى خُلُقٍ عَظِيمٍ

And you are of a great moral character.
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68:5

فَسَتُبْصِرُ وَيُبْصِرُونَ

You will see, and they will see.
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68:6

بِأَيْيِكُمُ الْمَفْتُونُ

Which of you is the afflicted.
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68:7

إِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِمَنْ ضَلَّ عَنْ سَبِيلِهِ وَهُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِالْمُهْتَدِينَ

Your Lord knows best who has strayed from His path, and He knows best the well-guided.
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68:8

فَلَا تُطِعِ الْمُكَذِّبِينَ

So do not obey the deniers.
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68:9

وَدُّوا لَوْ تُدْهِنُ فَيُدْهِنُونَ

They would like you to compromise, so they would compromise.
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68:10

وَلَا تُطِعْ كُلَّ حَلَّافٍ مَهِينٍ

And do not obey any vile swearer.
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68:11

هَمَّازٍ مَشَّاءٍ بِنَمِيمٍ

Backbiter, spreader of slander.
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68:12

مَنَّاعٍ لِلْخَيْرِ مُعْتَدٍ أَثِيمٍ

Preventer of good, transgressor, sinner.
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68:13

عُتُلٍّ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ زَنِيمٍ

Rude and fake besides.
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68:14

أَنْ كَانَ ذَا مَالٍ وَبَنِينَ

Just because he has money and children.
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68:15

إِذَا تُتْلَى عَلَيْهِ آيَاتُنَا قَالَ أَسَاطِيرُ الْأَوَّلِينَ

When Our Verses are recited to him, he says, “Myths of the ancients!”
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68:16

سَنَسِمُهُ عَلَى الْخُرْطُومِ

We will brand him on the muzzle.
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68:17

إِنَّا بَلَوْنَاهُمْ كَمَا بَلَوْنَا أَصْحَابَ الْجَنَّةِ إِذْ أَقْسَمُوا لَيَصْرِمُنَّهَا مُصْبِحِينَ

We tested them, as We tested the owners of the garden, when they vowed to harvest it in the morning.
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68:18

وَلَا يَسْتَثْنُونَ

Without any reservation.
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68:19

فَطَافَ عَلَيْهَا طَائِفٌ مِنْ رَبِّكَ وَهُمْ نَائِمُونَ

But a calamity from your Lord went around it while they slept.
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68:20

فَأَصْبَحَتْ كَالصَّرِيمِ

And in the morning it was as if picked.
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68:21

فَتَنَادَوْا مُصْبِحِينَ

In the morning, they called to one another.
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68:22

أَنِ اغْدُوا عَلَى حَرْثِكُمْ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ صَارِمِينَ

“Go early to your plantation, if you are going to harvest.”
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68:23

فَانْطَلَقُوا وَهُمْ يَتَخَافَتُونَ

So off they went, murmuring to one another.
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68:24

أَنْ لَا يَدْخُلَنَّهَا الْيَوْمَ عَلَيْكُمْ مِسْكِينٌ

“No poor person is to enter it upon you today.”
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68:25

وَغَدَوْا عَلَى حَرْدٍ قَادِرِينَ

And early they went, resolved in intent.
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68:26

فَلَمَّا رَأَوْهَا قَالُوا إِنَّا لَضَالُّونَ

But when they saw it, they said, “We were wrong.
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68:27

بَلْ نَحْنُ مَحْرُومُونَ

We are now deprived.”
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68:28

قَالَ أَوْسَطُهُمْ أَلَمْ أَقُلْ لَكُمْ لَوْلَا تُسَبِّحُونَ

The most reasonable of them said, “Did I not say to you, ‘if only you would glorify?’”
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68:29

قَالُوا سُبْحَانَ رَبِّنَا إِنَّا كُنَّا ظَالِمِينَ

They said, “Glory to our Lord—We were indeed in the wrong.”
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68:30

فَأَقْبَلَ بَعْضُهُمْ عَلَى بَعْضٍ يَتَلَاوَمُونَ

Then they turned to one another, blaming one another.
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