Surah Al-Qalam
القلم
Full text, transliteration, translation and color-coded tajweed
- 52 verses
- Meccan
- Juz 29
- Pages 564 to 566
- 7 min 47 s to listen
- 244 tajweed rules
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- 300 words
- Order of revelation: 2
Al-Qalam (القلم) is surah 68 of the Quran: Meccan, 52 verses, in juz 29, pages 564 to 566 of the Madani Mushaf. Listening takes 7 min 47 s with al-Husary's teaching recitation. Here is the full text of Al-Qalam with color-coded tajweed, transliteration, translation of the meaning and an explanation of each verse.
The full text of Al-Qalam
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
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نٓ ۚ وَٱلْقَلَمِ وَمَا يَسْطُرُونَ ﴿١﴾
nūn | wal-qalami wamā yasṭurūn
Nūn. By the pen and what they inscribe,
See footnote to 2:1.
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مَآ أَنتَ بِنِعْمَةِ رَبِّكَ بِمَجْنُونٍ ﴿٢﴾
mā 'anta biniʿmati rabbika bimajnūn
You are not, [O Muḥammad], by the favor of your Lord, a madman.
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وَإِنَّ لَكَ لَأَجْرًا غَيْرَ مَمْنُونٍ ﴿٣﴾
wa'inna laka la'ajran ghayra mamnūn
And indeed, for you is a reward uninterrupted.
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وَإِنَّكَ لَعَلَىٰ خُلُقٍ عَظِيمٍ ﴿٤﴾
wa'innaka laʿalā khuluqin ʿaẓīm
And indeed, you are of a great moral character.
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فَسَتُبْصِرُ وَيُبْصِرُونَ ﴿٥﴾
fasatubṣiru wayubṣirūn
So you will see and they will see
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بِأَييِّكُمُ ٱلْمَفْتُونُ ﴿٦﴾
bi'ayyikumu l-maftūn
Which of you is the afflicted [by a devil].
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إِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِمَن ضَلَّ عَن سَبِيلِهِۦ وَهُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِٱلْمُهْتَدِينَ ﴿٧﴾
inna rabbaka huwa 'aʿlamu biman ḍalla ʿan sabīlihī wahuwa 'aʿlamu bil-muhtadīn
Indeed, your Lord is most knowing of who has gone astray from His way, and He is most knowing of the [rightly] guided.
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فَلَا تُطِعِ ٱلْمُكَذِّبِينَ ﴿٨﴾
falā tuṭiʿi l-mukadhdhibīn
Then do not obey the deniers.
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وَدُّوا۟ لَوْ تُدْهِنُ فَيُدْهِنُونَ ﴿٩﴾
waddū law tud-hinu fayud-hinūn
They wish that you would soften [in your position], so they would soften [toward you].
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وَلَا تُطِعْ كُلَّ حَلَّافٍ مَّهِينٍ ﴿١٠﴾
walā tuṭiʿ kulla ḥallāfim mahīn
And do not obey every worthless habitual swearer
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هَمَّازٍ مَّشَّآءٍۭ بِنَمِيمٍ ﴿١١﴾
hammāzim mashshā'im binamīm
[And] scorner, going about with malicious gossip -
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مَّنَّاعٍ لِّلْخَيْرِ مُعْتَدٍ أَثِيمٍ ﴿١٢﴾
mannāʿil lil-khayri muʿtadin 'athīm
A preventer of good, transgressing and sinful,
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عُتُلٍّۭ بَعْدَ ذَٰلِكَ زَنِيمٍ ﴿١٣﴾
ʿutullim baʿda dhālika zanīm
Cruel, moreover, and an illegitimate pretender.
i.e., claiming a particular lineage falsely. The description given in these verses is of al-Waleed bin al-Mugheerah (see also 74:11-25) or possibly, as asserted by Ibn Katheer, al-Akhnas bin Shurayq.
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أَن كَانَ ذَا مَالٍ وَبَنِينَ ﴿١٤﴾
an kāna dhā māliw wabanīn
Because he is a possessor of wealth and children,
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إِذَا تُتْلَىٰ عَلَيْهِ ءَايَـٰتُنَا قَالَ أَسَـٰطِيرُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ ﴿١٥﴾
idhā tutlā ʿalayhi 'āyātunā qāla 'asāṭīru l-awwalīn
When Our verses are recited to him, he says, "Legends of the former peoples."
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سَنَسِمُهُۥ عَلَى ٱلْخُرْطُومِ ﴿١٦﴾
sanasimuhū ʿala l-khurṭūm
We will brand him upon the snout.
Literally, "trunk," meaning the nose of an elephant or pig.
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إِنَّا بَلَوْنَـٰهُمْ كَمَا بَلَوْنَآ أَصْحَـٰبَ ٱلْجَنَّةِ إِذْ أَقْسَمُوا۟ لَيَصْرِمُنَّهَا مُصْبِحِينَ ﴿١٧﴾
innā balawnāhum kamā balawnā 'aṣḥāba l-jannati 'idh 'aqsamū layaṣrimunnahā muṣbiḥīn
Indeed, We have tried them as We tried the companions of the garden, when they swore to cut its fruit in the [early] morning
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وَلَا يَسْتَثْنُونَ ﴿١٨﴾
walā yastathnūn
Without making exception.
i.e., without conceding that nothing can be accomplished unless Allāh wills, saying, "...if Allāh wills" ("in-shā’-Allāh"). See 18:23-24.
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فَطَافَ عَلَيْهَا طَآئِفٌ مِّن رَّبِّكَ وَهُمْ نَآئِمُونَ ﴿١٩﴾
faṭāfa ʿalayhā ṭā'ifum mir rabbika wahum nā'imūn
So there came upon it [i.e., the garden] an affliction from your Lord while they were asleep.
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فَأَصْبَحَتْ كَٱلصَّرِيمِ ﴿٢٠﴾
fa'aṣbaḥat kaṣ-ṣarīm
And it became as though reaped.
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فَتَنَادَوْا۟ مُصْبِحِينَ ﴿٢١﴾
fatanādaw muṣbiḥīn
And they called one another at morning,
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أَنِ ٱغْدُوا۟ عَلَىٰ حَرْثِكُمْ إِن كُنتُمْ صَـٰرِمِينَ ﴿٢٢﴾
ani ghdū ʿalā ḥarthikum 'in kuntum ṣārimīn
[Saying], "Go early to your crop if you would cut the fruit."
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فَٱنطَلَقُوا۟ وَهُمْ يَتَخَـٰفَتُونَ ﴿٢٣﴾
fanṭalaqū wahum yatakhāfatūn
So they set out, while lowering their voices,
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أَن لَّا يَدْخُلَنَّهَا ٱلْيَوْمَ عَلَيْكُم مِّسْكِينٌ ﴿٢٤﴾
al lā yadkhulannaha l-yawma ʿalaykum miskīn
[Saying], "There will surely not enter it today upon you [any] poor person."
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وَغَدَوْا۟ عَلَىٰ حَرْدٍ قَـٰدِرِينَ ﴿٢٥﴾
waghadaw ʿalā ḥardin qādirīn
And they went early in determination, [assuming themselves] able.
To carry out their plan, confident of their ability.
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فَلَمَّا رَأَوْهَا قَالُوٓا۟ إِنَّا لَضَآلُّونَ ﴿٢٦﴾
falammā ra'awhā qālū 'innā laḍāllūn
But when they saw it, they said, "Indeed, we are lost;
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بَلْ نَحْنُ مَحْرُومُونَ ﴿٢٧﴾
bal naḥnu maḥrūmūn
Rather, we have been deprived."
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قَالَ أَوْسَطُهُمْ أَلَمْ أَقُل لَّكُمْ لَوْلَا تُسَبِّحُونَ ﴿٢٨﴾
qāla 'awsaṭuhum 'alam 'aqul lakum lawlā tusabbiḥūn
The most moderate of them said, "Did I not say to you, 'Why do you not exalt [Allāh]?'"
i.e., remember or mention Him by saying, "...if Allāh wills." An additional meaning is "praise" or "thank" Him for His bounty.
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قَالُوا۟ سُبْحَـٰنَ رَبِّنَآ إِنَّا كُنَّا ظَـٰلِمِينَ ﴿٢٩﴾
qālū subḥāna rabbinā 'innā kunnā ẓālimīn
They said, "Exalted is our Lord! Indeed, we were wrongdoers."
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فَأَقْبَلَ بَعْضُهُمْ عَلَىٰ بَعْضٍ يَتَلَـٰوَمُونَ ﴿٣٠﴾
fa'aqbala baʿḍuhum ʿalā baʿḍiy yatalāwamūn
Then they approached one another, blaming each other.
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قَالُوا۟ يَـٰوَيْلَنَآ إِنَّا كُنَّا طَـٰغِينَ ﴿٣١﴾
qālū yāwaylanā 'innā kunnā ṭāghīn
They said, "O woe to us; indeed we were transgressors.
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عَسَىٰ رَبُّنَآ أَن يُبْدِلَنَا خَيْرًا مِّنْهَآ إِنَّآ إِلَىٰ رَبِّنَا رَٰغِبُونَ ﴿٣٢﴾
ʿasā rabbunā 'ay yubdilanā khayram minhā 'innā 'ilā rabbinā rāghibūn
Perhaps our Lord will substitute for us [one] better than it. Indeed, we are toward our Lord desirous."
Of His mercy, forgiveness and bounty.
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كَذَٰلِكَ ٱلْعَذَابُ ۖ وَلَعَذَابُ ٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ أَكْبَرُ ۚ لَوْ كَانُوا۟ يَعْلَمُونَ ﴿٣٣﴾
kadhālika l-ʿadhāb | walaʿadhābu l-ākhirati 'akbar | law kānū yaʿlamūn
Such is the punishment [of this world]. And the punishment of the Hereafter is greater, if they only knew.
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إِنَّ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ عِندَ رَبِّهِمْ جَنَّـٰتِ ٱلنَّعِيمِ ﴿٣٤﴾
inna lil-muttaqīna ʿinda rabbihim jannāti n-naʿīm
Indeed, for the righteous with their Lord are the Gardens of Pleasure.
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أَفَنَجْعَلُ ٱلْمُسْلِمِينَ كَٱلْمُجْرِمِينَ ﴿٣٥﴾
afanajʿalu l-muslimīna kal-mujrimīn
Then will We treat the Muslims like the criminals?
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مَا لَكُمْ كَيْفَ تَحْكُمُونَ ﴿٣٦﴾
mā lakum kayfa taḥkumūn
What is [the matter] with you? How do you judge?
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أَمْ لَكُمْ كِتَـٰبٌ فِيهِ تَدْرُسُونَ ﴿٣٧﴾
am lakum kitābun fīhi tadrusūn
Or do you have a scripture in which you learn
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إِنَّ لَكُمْ فِيهِ لَمَا تَخَيَّرُونَ ﴿٣٨﴾
inna lakum fīhi lamā takhayyarūn
That indeed for you is whatever you choose?
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أَمْ لَكُمْ أَيْمَـٰنٌ عَلَيْنَا بَـٰلِغَةٌ إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ ٱلْقِيَـٰمَةِ ۙ إِنَّ لَكُمْ لَمَا تَحْكُمُونَ ﴿٣٩﴾
am lakum 'aymānun ʿalaynā bālighatun 'ilā yawmi l-qiyāmati 'inna lakum lamā taḥkumūn
Or do you have oaths [binding] upon Us, extending until the Day of Resurrection, that indeed for you is whatever you judge?
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سَلْهُمْ أَيُّهُم بِذَٰلِكَ زَعِيمٌ ﴿٤٠﴾
salhum 'ayyuhum bidhālika zaʿīm
Ask them which of them, for that [claim], is responsible.
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أَمْ لَهُمْ شُرَكَآءُ فَلْيَأْتُوا۟ بِشُرَكَآئِهِمْ إِن كَانُوا۟ صَـٰدِقِينَ ﴿٤١﴾
am lahum shurakā'u falya'tū bishurakā'ihim 'in kānū ṣādiqīn
Or do they have partners? Then let them bring their partners, if they should be truthful.
i.e., those to whom they attribute divinity other than Allāh or partners from among themselves.
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يَوْمَ يُكْشَفُ عَن سَاقٍ وَيُدْعَوْنَ إِلَى ٱلسُّجُودِ فَلَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ ﴿٤٢﴾
yawma yukshafu ʿan sāqiw wayudʿawna 'ila s-sujūdi falā yastaṭīʿūn
The Day the shin will be uncovered and they are invited to prostration but they [i.e., the disbelievers] will not be able,
i.e., when everyone will find before him great difficulty. In accordance with authentic ḥadīths, "the shin" might also refer to that of Allāh (subḥānahu wa taʿālā), before which every believer will prostrate on the Day of Judgement. See footnote to 2:19.
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خَـٰشِعَةً أَبْصَـٰرُهُمْ تَرْهَقُهُمْ ذِلَّةٌ ۖ وَقَدْ كَانُوا۟ يُدْعَوْنَ إِلَى ٱلسُّجُودِ وَهُمْ سَـٰلِمُونَ ﴿٤٣﴾
khāshiʿatan 'abṣāruhum tarhaquhum dhillah | waqad kānū yudʿawna 'ila s-sujūdi wahum sālimūn
Their eyes humbled, humiliation will cover them. And they used to be invited to prostration while they were sound.
During worldly life.
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فَذَرْنِى وَمَن يُكَذِّبُ بِهَـٰذَا ٱلْحَدِيثِ ۖ سَنَسْتَدْرِجُهُم مِّنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ ﴿٤٤﴾
fadharnī wamay yukadhdhibu bihādha l-ḥadīth | sanastadrijuhum min ḥaythu lā yaʿlamūn
So leave Me, [O Muḥammad], with [the matter of] whoever denies this statement [i.e., the Qur’ān]. We will progressively lead them [to punishment] from where they do not know.
Allāh will increase His favors to them in this world by way of trial, whereby they will sink deeper into sin and thus into destruction.
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وَأُمْلِى لَهُمْ ۚ إِنَّ كَيْدِى مَتِينٌ ﴿٤٥﴾
wa'umlī lahum | inna kaydī matīn
And I will give them time. Indeed, My plan is firm.
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أَمْ تَسْـَٔلُهُمْ أَجْرًا فَهُم مِّن مَّغْرَمٍ مُّثْقَلُونَ ﴿٤٦﴾
am tas'aluhum 'ajran fahum mim maghramim muthqalūn
Or do you ask of them a payment, so they are by debt burdened down?
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أَمْ عِندَهُمُ ٱلْغَيْبُ فَهُمْ يَكْتُبُونَ ﴿٤٧﴾
am ʿindahumu l-ghaybu fahum yaktubūn
Or have they [knowledge of] the unseen, so they write [it] down?
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فَٱصْبِرْ لِحُكْمِ رَبِّكَ وَلَا تَكُن كَصَاحِبِ ٱلْحُوتِ إِذْ نَادَىٰ وَهُوَ مَكْظُومٌ ﴿٤٨﴾
faṣbir liḥukmi rabbika walā takun kaṣāḥibi l-ḥūti 'idh nādā wahuwa makẓūm
Then be patient for the decision of your Lord, [O Muḥammad], and be not like the companion of the fish [i.e., Jonah] when he called out while he was distressed.
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لَّوْلَآ أَن تَدَٰرَكَهُۥ نِعْمَةٌ مِّن رَّبِّهِۦ لَنُبِذَ بِٱلْعَرَآءِ وَهُوَ مَذْمُومٌ ﴿٤٩﴾
lawlā 'an tadārakahū niʿmatum mir rabbihī lanubidha bil-ʿarā'i wahuwa madhmūm
If not that a favor [i.e., mercy] from his Lord overtook him, he would have been thrown onto the naked shore while he was censured.
But instead, Allāh accepted his repentance and provided means for his recovery. See 37:139-148.
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فَٱجْتَبَـٰهُ رَبُّهُۥ فَجَعَلَهُۥ مِنَ ٱلصَّـٰلِحِينَ ﴿٥٠﴾
fajtabāhu rabbuhū fajaʿalahū mina ṣ-ṣāliḥīn
And his Lord chose him and made him of the righteous.
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وَإِن يَكَادُ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ لَيُزْلِقُونَكَ بِأَبْصَـٰرِهِمْ لَمَّا سَمِعُوا۟ ٱلذِّكْرَ وَيَقُولُونَ إِنَّهُۥ لَمَجْنُونٌ ﴿٥١﴾
wa'iy yakādu lladhīna kafarū layuzliqūnaka bi'abṣārihim lammā samiʿu dh-dhikra wayaqūlūna 'innahū lamajnūn
And indeed, those who disbelieve would almost make you slip with their eyes [i.e., looks] when they hear the message, and they say, "Indeed, he is mad."
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وَمَا هُوَ إِلَّا ذِكْرٌ لِّلْعَـٰلَمِينَ ﴿٥٢﴾
wamā huwa 'illā dhikrul lil-ʿālamīn
But it is not except a reminder to the worlds.
In the transliteration, “|”: the reciter stops; “·”: sakt, a brief cut without taking a breath.
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Tajweed in Al-Qalam, by the numbers
| Rule | Count | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Madd at a stop | 52 | |
| Madd Tabee'ee | 38 | |
| Hamzat al-Wasl | 28 | |
| Ghunnah | 24 | |
| Qalqalah | 23 | |
| Ikhfa | 16 | |
| Unpronounced letter | 15 | |
| Idgham with Ghunnah | 14 | |
| Madd Munfasil | 9 | |
| Lam Shamsiyyah | 6 | |
| Madd Muttasil | 6 | |
| Idgham without Ghunnah | 5 | |
| Idgham Shafawi | 3 | |
| Iqlab | 2 | |
| Madd Lazim | 2 | |
| Ikhfa Shafawi | 1 |
The meaning of Al-Qalam, verse by verse
Show the meaning of the 52 verses
- 68:1
The discussion on similar letters has already passed in Sūrah Al-Baqarah. Allah takes an oath on the Pen and whatever the people write with their pens.
- 68:2
O Messenger! You are not a madman, due to the messengership Allah has blessed you with. Rather, you are free of the insanity the idolaters accuse you with.
- 68:3
Indeed, there is definitely a great, everlasting reward for you for your conveying the message to the people, without there being a favour outstanding upon you for anyone.
- 68:4
And indeed, you are definitely on the greatest of character that the Qur’ān has brought; you are embodied with it to the most perfect degree.
- 68:5
So you will soon see, and these rejectors will also see.
- 68:6
When the truth is revealed, who from amongst you was actually a madman.
- 68:7
O Messenger! Indeed, your Lord knows of whoever deviates from His path, and He is best aware of those who are guided to it. Therefore, He knows that they are the ones who have deviated from it, and that you have been guided to it.
- 68:8
So, O Messenger, do not follow the rejectors in what you have brought.
- 68:9
They wish that you were soft and compromising towards them in matters of religion, so they can be soft and kind to you in return.
- 68:10
And do not follow anyone who frequently takes false oaths, and is vulgar.
- 68:11
Who frequently backbites the people, and bears tales between them to cause division between them.
- 68:12
Who often prevents goodness and oppresses the people in their wealth, their dignity and their lives; who is a habitual sinner and disobeyer.
- 68:13
Who is stubborn and rude, one residing among his people without being related to them.
- 68:14
Just because he is a person of wealth and many sons, he is too arrogant to have faith in Allah and in His Messenger.
- 68:15
When My verses are read to him, he says, “This are the tales written of the people of the past.”
- 68:16
I will place a mark on his nose which will stick with him and disfigure him.
- 68:17
Indeed, I have tested these idolaters with drought and hunger, just as I tested the people of the garden when they swore that they will quickly harvest its fruits in the morning, so that the poor cannot eat from them.
- 68:18
They did not attribute the matter to Allah among themselves, by saying: “If Allah wills”.
- 68:19
So I sent a fire to the garden which consumed it while its owners were asleep, unable to defend it.
- 68:20
It became black, like a dark night.
- 68:21
In the morning, its owners called on each other.
- 68:22
Saying, “Leave early towards your crop before the poor people arrive, if indeed, you wish to harvest your crops.”
- 68:23
So they made their way towards their crop quickly, talking among themselves in hushed tones.
- 68:24
They were saying to one another: “No poor person should come to you at the garden today.”
- 68:25
They left in the early morning, determined not to let anyone get to their crops.
- 68:26
Then, when they saw their crops having been burnt, they said to each other, “Surely, we have lost our way?!”
- 68:27
“Nay! We have been deprived of harvesting our crops because of us having been determined to prevent the poor from eating them.”
- 68:28
The most virtuous among them said, “Did I not tell you when you made up your mind to prevent the poor from your crops: “Why do you not glorify Allah and repent to Him?””
- 68:29
They said, “Glory be to our Lord; indeed, we wronged ourselves when we decided to prevent the poor from the crops of our garden.”
- 68:30
So they began to go back on their words out of regret.
- 68:31
They said, regretfully, “How much we have lost! Indeed, we transgressed the limits by depriving the poor of their rights.”
- 68:32
“It is hoped from our Lord that He gives us better than our garden in return. Indeed, we are desirous towards Him; we hope for forgiveness from Him and seek goodness from Him.”
- 68:33
I punish those who disobey Me just like I punished these people with the punishment of depravation. And indeed, the punishment of the afterlife is greater, if only they were to know its severity and permanence.
- 68:34
Indeed, those who are mindful of Allah by fulfilling His commands and refraining from the things He has not allowed, will have gardens of pleasure by their Lord, wherein they will live in permanent luxury.
- 68:35
Should I make the Muslims the same as the disbelievers in terms of requital, as the idolaters of Makkah claim?
- 68:36
O idolaters! What is wrong with you; how can you come to this oppressive, warped conclusion?
- 68:37
Do you have a book in which you read that there should be equality between the obedient and disobedient?
- 68:38
Indeed, in that book you would then have whatever you choose in the afterlife.
- 68:39
Or, do you have covenants with Me weighted with oaths, that you will get whatever you decide for yourselves?
- 68:40
O Messenger! Ask those making these statement: “Who is their guarantor for this?”
- 68:41
Or do they have associates other than Allah who make them equal in requital with the believers? If so, they should bring forth these associates of theirs if they are true in their claim that they have made them equal in requital with the believers.
- 68:42
On the Day of Judgement, the horror will become clear and our Lord will expose a part of His Shin. The people will be invited to prostrate, so the believers will prostrate, but the disbelievers and hypocrites will remain standing, unable to prostrate.
- 68:43
Their eyesight will be humiliated; humiliation and regret will overcome them. Yet in the world, they were asked to prostrate to Allah while they were in safety from what they will be facing on that day.
- 68:44
O Messenger! Leave me to deal with whoever denies this Qur’ān that has been revealed to you. I will drive them to the punishment gradually, in a way they do not realise that it is a method of leading them gradually into destruction.
- 68:45
And I give them respite for a short while so that they go to extremes in their sin. Indeed, My plan regarding the people of disbelief and rejection is firm; they will not escape Me nor be safe from My punishment.
- 68:46
O Messenger! Do you seek a reward from them for what you invite them towards, due to which they are greatly burdened, being the cause of their turning away from you? The reality is the opposite: you do not seek any reward from them; so what stops them from following you?
- 68:47
Or do they have knowledge of the Ghaib from which they write whatever proof appeal to them, that they then use to argue against you?
- 68:48
O Messenger! So wait for the decision of your Lord to give them respite and gradually lead them into destruction. And do not be like the companion of the whale i.e. Jonah (peace be upon him) who became annoyed with his people, and then called out to his Lord while distressed in the darkness of the sea and the darkness of the stomach of the whale.
- 68:49
Had it not been for the mercy of Allah reaching him, the whale would have thrown him on a barren land, rebuked.
- 68:50
But his Lord chose him and made him one of His pious servants.
- 68:51
And indeed, those who disbelieve in Allah and reject his Messengers could almost bring you to the ground with their eyes due to their extremely sharp glances towards you when they hear this Qur’ān that was revealed to you. While following their desires and turning away from the truth, they say, “Indeed, the Messenger who has brought it is a madman.”
- 68:52
Yet the Qur’ān that has been revealed to you is only a reminder and admonition for the humans and the Jinn.
Frequently asked questions
How many verses are in Surah Al-Qalam?
52 verses and 300 words. It starts in juz 29 and covers pages 564 to 566 of the Madani Mushaf.
Is Al-Qalam Meccan or Medinan?
Meccan, according to the classification of the Madani Mushaf. In the order of revelation, it comes 2nd.
How long does it take to listen to Al-Qalam?
7 min 47 s with al-Husary's teaching recitation (al-Mushaf al-Mu'allim), which is slower than a usual recitation.
Which tajweed rules are in Al-Qalam?
244 rules are color-coded on this page. The most frequent in Al-Qalam: Madd at a stop (52), Madd Tabee'ee (38) and Hamzat al-Wasl (28).
How can I practice reciting Surah Al-Qalam and get corrected?
Recite Surah Al-Qalam out loud in the Tilawa app, on iPhone or Android: it follows every word of Al-Qalam, then shows you the words and tajweed rules to work on, with the correct recitation to replay.
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