Kalem Sûresi Abul Ala Maududi Meâli

Nun. By the pen and what the scribes write. ﴾ 1 ﴿
By your Lord's Grace, you are not afflicted with madness, ﴾ 2 ﴿
and surely yours shall be a never-ending reward, ﴾ 3 ﴿
and you are certainly on the most exalted standard of moral excellence. ﴾ 4 ﴿
So you will soon see, and they too will see, ﴾ 5 ﴿
which of you is afflicted with madness. ﴾ 6 ﴿
Surely your Lord knows well those who have strayed from His Way just as He knows well those who are on the Right Way. ﴾ 7 ﴿
Do not, then, yield to those who reject the Truth, decrying it as false; ﴾ 8 ﴿
they would wish you to be pliant so that they too may be pliant. ﴾ 9 ﴿
And do not yield to any contemptible swearer, ﴾ 10 ﴿
the fault-finder who goes around slandering, ﴾ 11 ﴿
the hinderer of good, the transgressor, the sinful; ﴾ 12 ﴿
the coarse-grained, and above all mean and ignoble; ﴾ 13 ﴿
(who so acts) simply because he has wealth and sons, ﴾ 14 ﴿
and whenever Our verses are rehearsed to him, he says: “These are fairy- tales of times gone by.” ﴾ 15 ﴿
Soon shall We brand him on his snout. ﴾ 16 ﴿
We have put them [i.e., the Makkans] to test even as We put to test the owners of the orchard when they vowed that they would gather the fruit of their orchard in the morning, ﴾ 17 ﴿
without making any allowance (for the will of Allah). ﴾ 18 ﴿
Thereupon a calamity from your Lord passed over it while they were asleep, ﴾ 19 ﴿
and so by morning the orchard lay as though it had been fully harvested. ﴾ 20 ﴿
At daybreak they called out to one another: ﴾ 21 ﴿
“Hurry to your orchard if you would gather its fruit.” ﴾ 22 ﴿
So off they went, whispering to one another: ﴾ 23 ﴿
“No destitute person shall enter it today.” ﴾ 24 ﴿
They went forth early, believing that they had the power (to gather the fruit). ﴾ 25 ﴿
But as soon as they beheld the orchard, (they cried out): “We have certainly lost the way; ﴾ 26 ﴿
rather, we are utterly ruined.” ﴾ 27 ﴿
The best among them said: “Did I not say to you: why do you not give glory to (your Lord)?” ﴾ 28 ﴿
They cried out: “Glory be to our Lord! Certainly we were sinners.” ﴾ 29 ﴿
Then they began to reproach one another. ﴾ 30 ﴿
They said: “Woe to us! We had indeed transgressed. ﴾ 31 ﴿
Maybe our Lord will give us a better orchard in its place; to our Lord do we penitently turn.” ﴾ 32 ﴿
Such is the chastisement; and the chastisement of the Hereafter is assuredly even greater, if only they knew. ﴾ 33 ﴿
Surely the God-fearing shall have Gardens of bliss with their Lord. ﴾ 34 ﴿
What! Shall We treat those who have submitted (to Our command) like those who have acted as criminals? ﴾ 35 ﴿
What is the matter with you? How ill do you judge! ﴾ 36 ﴿
Or do you have a Book wherein you read ﴾ 37 ﴿
that (in the Hereafter) you shall have all that you choose for yourselves? ﴾ 38 ﴿
Or have We sworn a covenant with you which We are bound to keep till the Day of Resurrection, (a covenant requiring that whatever you ordain for yourselves shall be yours)? ﴾ 39 ﴿
Ask them: “Which of them can guarantee that? ﴾ 40 ﴿
Or has something been guaranteed by any of those whom they associate with Allah in His Divinity?” If so, let them bring forth their associates, if they are truthful. ﴾ 41 ﴿
On the Day when the dreadful calamity will unfold, when people will be summoned to prostrate themselves, and yet they will not be able to prostrate. ﴾ 42 ﴿
Their eyes shall be downcast and ignominy shall overwhelm them. For when they were safe and sound, they were summoned to prostrate themselves, (and they refused). ﴾ 43 ﴿
So leave Me, (O Prophet), to deal with him who gives the lie to this Discourse. We shall draw them little by little (to their undoing) in a way that they will not know. ﴾ 44 ﴿
I am giving them a respite. Great is My scheme! ﴾ 45 ﴿
Or are you asking them for some compensation so that they feel burdened with debt? ﴾ 46 ﴿
Or do they have any knowledge of the Unseen which they are now writing down? ﴾ 47 ﴿
So bear with patience until the Judgement of your Lord comes, and do not belike the man in the fish (i.e., Jonah) who called out, choking with grief: ﴾ 48 ﴿
had his Lord not bestowed His favour upon him, he would have been cast upon that barren shore (and would have remained there) in disgrace. ﴾ 49 ﴿
But his Lord exalted him, and included him among His righteous servants. ﴾ 50 ﴿
When the unbelievers hear this Exhortation, they look at you as though they would knock you off your feet with their (hostile) glances. They say: “Surely he is afflicted with madness”; ﴾ 51 ﴿
although this is nothing but an Exhortation (to goodness) for everyone in the world. ﴾ 52 ﴿