Surah “The Pen”

as rendered by Samy Mahdy — 52 verses

By Nooon, and by the pen, and by what they are written in lines.
You are not, with your Lord’s grace, a madman.
And surely, for you a wage never to be cut off.
And surely you are upon a great morality.
So you will sight, and they will sight.
Which of you is infatuated.
Surely Your Lord is a knower with who has strayed from His pathway, and He is knower with the guided ones.
So do not obey the falsifiers.
They wish if you cajole, so they will cajole.
And do not obey every humiliated swearer.
Backbiter, walking by gossiping.
Preventer for goodness, transgressor, sinner.
Brutal man and more than that, illegitimate son.
If because he was a possessor of money and children.
When Our verses are recited upon him, he said, "The former’s Legends."
We will brand him, upon the snout.
Surely, We tried them, as We tried the paradise’s companions, when they swore to pluck it in the morning.
And they will not make an exception.
So a rover from your Lord rove on it while they are sleeping.
So, it became in the morning like the plucked one.
So, they called out one another in the morning.
(Saying): Go early on your tilth if you are plucking.
So they launched, while they murmured.
“Surely no needy person shall enter it upon you Today.”
And in the early morning they went, capable of prevention.
So when they saw it, they said, "Surely, we were strayers.
Nay, but we are deprived.”
The most moderate of them said, “Did I not say for you, ‘if only you would glorify?’”
They said, “Glorified is our Lord, surely We were oppressors.”
So some of them came upon some others, were blamed.
They said, "O woe to us; surely we were tyrants.
Perhaps our Lord will substitute for us better than it. Surely, we are toward our Lord desirous."
Thus is the torment. And the Hereafter torment is bigger, if they only knew.
Surely for the pious with their Lord are The Bliss Paradises.
So, shall We set up the Muslims like the criminals?
What is the matter with you? How do you judge?
Or for you a book within it you study.
That surely for you in it is whatever you choose?
Or do you have oaths upon Us, far reaching to The Resurrection Day, surely for you is whatever you judge?
Ask them, which of them, by this a claimer.
Or for them associates? So let them bring their associates, if they are truthful.
On a Day when it will uncover a leg and they will be called to the prostration, so they will not be capable.
Were humbled their sights, lowness overstrained them. And before they were already being called to the prostration while they were intact.
So leave Me with whoever falsified by this narration; We will withdraw them gradually, from wherever they do not know.
And I will give them time. Surely, My plan is firm.
Or do you ask them for a wage, so they are loaded from indebt?
Or do they have the unseen, so they are writing?
So be patient for your Lord’s judgment and do not be like the whale companion when he is called while he is suppressed.
If not a grace from his Lord has reached him, he would have been cast into the naked shore, while he was blameworthy.
So his Lord elected him, so He set him up from the righteous.
And surely almost those who disbelieve would slide you with their sights when they heard the reminder, and say, “Surely he is madman!”
And it is nothing except, a reminder for the worlds.