Kalem Sûresi Wahiduddin Khan Meâli

Nun. By the pen, and all that they write! ﴾ 1 ﴿
By the grace of your Lord, you are not a mad man. ﴾ 2 ﴿
Most surely, you will have a never ending reward. ﴾ 3 ﴿
For you are truly of a sublime character. ﴾ 4 ﴿
Soon you will see, as will they, ﴾ 5 ﴿
which of you is a prey to madness. ﴾ 6 ﴿
Your Lord knows best who has fallen by the wayside, and who has remained on the true path. ﴾ 7 ﴿
Do not give in to the deniers of truth. ﴾ 8 ﴿
They want you to make concessions to them and then they will reciprocate. ﴾ 9 ﴿
Do not yield to any contemptible swearer of oaths, ﴾ 10 ﴿
or to any defamer or one who spreads slander, ﴾ 11 ﴿
or to one who places obstacles in the way of good being done or to the wicked transgressor, ﴾ 12 ﴿
who is ignoble and besides all that, base-born; ﴾ 13 ﴿
just because he has wealth and sons, ﴾ 14 ﴿
when Our revelations are recited to him, he says, "These are just ancient fables." ﴾ 15 ﴿
Soon We will brand him on the nose. ﴾ 16 ﴿
We have tried them as we tried the owners of a certain orchard, who vowed to harvest all its fruits the next morning, ﴾ 17 ﴿
without saying, "If it be God's will." ﴾ 18 ﴿
A calamity from your Lord befell the orchard as they slept. ﴾ 19 ﴿
And by morning it lay as if it had already been harvested, a barren land. ﴾ 20 ﴿
So they called out to each other at the break of dawn, ﴾ 21 ﴿
saying, "Be quick to reach your orchard, if you want to gather all your fruits." ﴾ 22 ﴿
So they went off, whispering to one another, ﴾ 23 ﴿
"Be sure to stop any poor person from entering the orchard today." ﴾ 24 ﴿
They set out early in the morning, thinking they had the power to prevent. ﴾ 25 ﴿
But when they saw it, they said, "We must have lost our way. ﴾ 26 ﴿
Indeed, we are utterly ruined!" ﴾ 27 ﴿
The more upright of the two said, "Did I not bid you to glorify God?" ﴾ 28 ﴿
They said, "Glory be to God, our Lord. We have surely done wrong." ﴾ 29 ﴿
Then they began to heap reproaches on each other. ﴾ 30 ﴿
They said, "Alas for us, our behaviour was beyond the pale. ﴾ 31 ﴿
May be our Lord will give us a better orchard in its stead; we turn to Him." ﴾ 32 ﴿
Such was their punishment, [in this life]. But the punishment of the life to come is much more severe, if only they knew it! ﴾ 33 ﴿
Those who are mindful of their Lord will be rewarded with gardens of bliss. ﴾ 34 ﴿
Should We treat the true believers and the wrongdoers alike? ﴾ 35 ﴿
What ails you? How ill you judge! ﴾ 36 ﴿
Have you a Scripture that tells you ﴾ 37 ﴿
that you will be granted whatever you choose? ﴾ 38 ﴿
Or do you have Our solemn oaths, binding upon Us till the Day of Resurrection, that you shall have whatever you yourselves decide? ﴾ 39 ﴿
Ask them, which of them will vouch for that! ﴾ 40 ﴿
Or have they other partners [besides God]? Let them bring forth their other partners, if what they say be true. ﴾ 41 ﴿
On the Day when the truth shall be laid bare, they will be called upon to prostrate themselves, but they will not be able to do so. ﴾ 42 ﴿
Their eyes will be cast down and they will be covered in shame; they were bidden to prostrate themselves, when they were safe and sound [but they did not obey]. ﴾ 43 ﴿
So leave to Me those who reject this message. We shall lead them step by step to their ruin, in ways beyond their ken. ﴾ 44 ﴿
I shall grant them some respite, for My plan is powerful. ﴾ 45 ﴿
Do you demand some recompense from them that would weigh them down with debt? ﴾ 46 ﴿
Is the unseen within their grasp so that they write it down? ﴾ 47 ﴿
Wait patiently for your Lord's judgement; do not be like the man who, having been swallowed by a whale, called out in distress. ﴾ 48 ﴿
Had his Lord's grace not been bestowed upon him, he would have been cast away in disgrace upon that desolate shore. ﴾ 49 ﴿
But his Lord chose him for His own and made him one of the righteous. ﴾ 50 ﴿
When those who deny the truth hear the admonition, they would almost cause you to stumble with their evil eyes; and they say, "He is certainly mad." ﴾ 51 ﴿
Yet it is purely an admonition to mankind. ﴾ 52 ﴿