☪️ Quran: Chapter 68 The Pen Al Qalam سورة القلم

Revelation place: Mecca

Revelation order: 2

Number of verses: 52

Theme:

The central theme of Surah Al Qalam is morality and righteous character. It highlights the importance of maintaining good manners, honesty, humility, and patience, especially in the face of rejection, mockery, or hardship. The Surah praises the noble character of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and presents him as a model of moral excellence.

It strongly warns against arrogance, greed, and dishonesty, emphasizing the consequences of turning away from divine guidance. One of the main messages of this Surah is that people should not be proud or arrogant. Those who reject Allah’s guidance and act unjustly will face consequences, either in this life or in the Hereafter.

Surah Al-Qalam reminds believers that moral character is a core part of faith, and that accountability before Allah is certain. Maintaining humility, justice, and patience is the path to true success.

I seek refuge with Allah from Satan, the condemned.

With the name of Allah, the Gracious the Merciful.

(Acknowledge and declare that Allah is the author of the Quran)

1- Noon (See Chapter 56 Standalone letters) and the pen and what they inscribe (Allah’s blessing of perpetual knowledge to humans. The angels write the deeds of Humans)

2- You (Muhammed) are not by the blessing of your God, a madman (Allah’s blessing to you via prophethood and wisdom)

3- And indeed, for you, are a wage, not bestowed (Not withheld, well deserved, uninterrupted by Allah and not bestowed by humans)

4- And indeed, you are upon great moral (His moral was the Quran. The prophet complied with the commands of the Qur’an and adheres to its morals)

5- And you will see and they will see you, (when the truth is revealed during this life and at the hereafter)

6- Which of you are tempted (Tried by madness, and misguidance)

7- Indeed, your God is most knowing of whom has strayed away from his path, and most knowing of the guided

8- So do not obey the deniers (Remain steadfast on your path and opposition to them)

9- They wish if you wobble (Jiggle, sway, give in on your message, like fat when it soften, and shakes), so they wobble (Pretend leniency to you)

10- And do not obey every contemptible swearer (Excessive swearer)

11- Winkling (Who points out to people  their shortcoming or evil to their faces, or behind their backs) walking about with gossip (Walk among them gossiping)

12- Obstructor of good, transgressing sinful (Excessively sinful, all the time)

13- Coarse, and after that (moreover) illegitimate (fake, pretender)

14- Even if he is a possessor of wealth and children (Do not obey even if or for his money and power)

15- As when Our verses (Quran) in recited upon him he says “lines of the first ones” (Legends, myths, fairy tales of the ancients)

16- Will feature him on his trunk (Mark him on his snout on Judgement day)

17- Indeed, We have inflicted them (Meccan disbelievers), the like We inflicted the companions of the garden, as they swore that they will pluck its fruits in the morning (next day early morning)

18- With no exception (For sure with no fail will pluck it, they did not say “Allah willing”)

19- So went upon it a passer (Inflection, fire) from your God, while they are asleep

20- So, it became in the morning as its plucked

21- So, they called (one another) in the morning

22- That go to your crop, if you were to pluck it

23- So, they set out while whispering,

24- That indeed will not enter it today upon you, a needy (They came early before the people spread out, they whispered out of greed and miserliness, fearing that someone would hear them and inform the needy)

25- And they went upon their intension, able (Crooked intension with strong purpose)

26- And when they saw it, they said “we are strayed”

27- Rather, we are deprived

28- Said their middle one (moderate) “ did I not tell you, why not you exalt” (Exalt Allah on his blessing, and also say “Allah willing” not will pluck it tomorrow with no fail)

29- They said” Exalted our God, indeed we were unjust”

30- So came forward some of them unto others, blaming (among each other)

31- They said “Woe to us, indeed we were transgressors” (Allah’s path)

32- Hopefully our God will replace it with a better of it (for repenting), indeed we are to our God we desire

33- Such is the torment (In this world, depriving), and the torment of the hereafter is greater, if they knew

34- Indeed, for the pious at their God, is the pleasures gardens

35- Shall We make the submitters like the criminals?

36- What with you, how do you judge?

37- Or for you a book, in it you learn? (Book from Allah that teach that the obedient is like the disobedient)

38- Then indeed for you in it, when (whatever) you choose. (Not sent by Allah)

39- Or for you oaths upon Us that is reaching to the day of resurrection, that indeed for you when (whatever) you judge (that will happen to you whatever you choose)

40- Ask them (Oh Muhammed) who of them (Meccan disbelievers) would claim (lead, guarantee these claims)

41- Or they have partners? Then let them bring their partners, if they were truthful

42- The day that get exposed the leg (idiom of gets tough, when the rubber hits the road, roll up your sleeves, means on Judgement day) and they are called to prostrate, and they are unable

43- Down casted their eyes (broken, humbled), humiliation exhausting them, and they used to be called to prostrate while they were sound

44- So, leave Me (Leave it to Allah) whoever deny this speech (Quran), We will take them gradually (set them up) from where they do not know

45- And respite to them (delay and extend to them), indeed My scheme (Plot) is firm

46- Or do you ask them for wage (fees for delivering the Quran message), so they from the penalty (cost) are weighted down (cannot afford, drowning in debt)

47- Or they have that, that is absent, so they write (have knowledge of the absent unseen, unknown, so they write from it)

48- So be patient to the decree of your God, and do not be like the companion of the whale (Younis, Jonnah), as he called while he was repressed (Impatiently asking God to hasten punishment to his disbelieving people)

49- And if not had reached him blessing from his God, would have been thrown with nakedness (wilderness, naked in empty open land, or stayed in the whale till judgment day) while unconscious (condemned and blamed)

50- So elected him, His God (after he repented and resumed the revelations), and made him among the righteous

51- And, indeed almost the disbelievers slip you with their eyes (eye strike out of hatred and envious) when they heard the reminder (Quran), and they say” indeed he is mad”

52- And, it (Quran) is but a reminder to the worlds

Disclaimer:

The Holy Quran, in its essence, is a divine revelation that can only be fully appreciated in its original Arabic language. Any translation or interpretation, including the one presented here, is not and cannot be a replacement for the Arabic Holy Quran. I intended to offer an English rendering that remains faithful to the original Arabic. I am neither a scholar nor do I possess any formal Islamic qualifications. My approach to this translation is empirical, drawing upon my readings of selected scholarly interpretations, personal experiences, and understanding of the Holy Quran as a Muslim native Arabic speaker.