{بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ ن ۚ وَالْقَلَمِ وَمَا يَسْطُرُونَ}
(1) Nūn.[1724] By the pen and what they inscribe,
{مَا أَنْتَ بِنِعْمَةِ رَبِّكَ بِمَجْنُونٍ}
(2) You are not, [O Muḥammad], by the favor of your Lord, a madman.
{إِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِمَنْ ضَلَّ عَنْ سَبِيلِهِ وَهُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِالْمُهْتَدِينَ}
(7) Indeed, your Lord is most knowing of who has gone astray from His way, and He is most knowing of the [rightly] guided.
{وَدُّوا لَوْ تُدْهِنُ فَيُدْهِنُونَ}
(9) They wish that you would soften [in your position], so they would soften [toward you].
{إِذَا تُتْلَىٰ عَلَيْهِ آيَاتُنَا قَالَ أَسَاطِيرُ الْأَوَّلِينَ}
(15) When Our verses are recited to him, he says, "Legends of the former peoples."
{إِنَّا بَلَوْنَاهُمْ كَمَا بَلَوْنَا أَصْحَابَ الْجَنَّةِ إِذْ أَقْسَمُوا لَيَصْرِمُنَّهَا مُصْبِحِينَ}
(17) Indeed, We have tried them as We tried the companions of the garden, when they swore to cut its fruit in the [early] morning
{فَطَافَ عَلَيْهَا طَائِفٌ مِنْ رَبِّكَ وَهُمْ نَائِمُونَ}
(19) So there came upon it [i.e., the garden] an affliction from your Lord while they were asleep.
{أَنِ اغْدُوا عَلَىٰ حَرْثِكُمْ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ صَارِمِينَ}
(22) [Saying], "Go early to your crop if you would cut the fruit."
{أَنْ لَا يَدْخُلَنَّهَا الْيَوْمَ عَلَيْكُمْ مِسْكِينٌ}
(24) [Saying], "There will surely not enter it today upon you [any] poor person."
{وَغَدَوْا عَلَىٰ حَرْدٍ قَادِرِينَ}
(25) And they went early in determination, [assuming themselves] able.[1728]
{فَلَمَّا رَأَوْهَا قَالُوا إِنَّا لَضَالُّونَ}
(26) But when they saw it, they said, "Indeed, we are lost;
{قَالَ أَوْسَطُهُمْ أَلَمْ أَقُلْ لَكُمْ لَوْلَا تُسَبِّحُونَ}
(28) The most moderate of them said, "Did I not say to you, 'Why do you not exalt [Allāh]?'"[1729]
{قَالُوا سُبْحَانَ رَبِّنَا إِنَّا كُنَّا ظَالِمِينَ}
(29) They said, "Exalted is our Lord! Indeed, we were wrongdoers."
{فَأَقْبَلَ بَعْضُهُمْ عَلَىٰ بَعْضٍ يَتَلَاوَمُونَ}
(30) Then they approached one another, blaming each other.
{قَالُوا يَا وَيْلَنَا إِنَّا كُنَّا طَاغِينَ}
(31) They said, "O woe to us; indeed we were transgressors.
{عَسَىٰ رَبُّنَا أَنْ يُبْدِلَنَا خَيْرًا مِنْهَا إِنَّا إِلَىٰ رَبِّنَا رَاغِبُونَ}
(32) Perhaps our Lord will substitute for us [one] better than it. Indeed, we are toward our Lord desirous."[1730]
{كَذَٰلِكَ الْعَذَابُ ۖ وَلَعَذَابُ الْآخِرَةِ أَكْبَرُ ۚ لَوْ كَانُوا يَعْلَمُونَ}
(33) Such is the punishment [of this world]. And the punishment of the Hereafter is greater, if they only knew.
{إِنَّ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ عِنْدَ رَبِّهِمْ جَنَّاتِ النَّعِيمِ}
(34) Indeed, for the righteous with their Lord are the Gardens of Pleasure.
{أَفَنَجْعَلُ الْمُسْلِمِينَ كَالْمُجْرِمِينَ}
(35) Then will We treat the Muslims like the criminals?
{أَمْ لَكُمْ أَيْمَانٌ عَلَيْنَا بَالِغَةٌ إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ ۙ إِنَّ لَكُمْ لَمَا تَحْكُمُونَ}
(39) Or do you have oaths [binding] upon Us, extending until the Day of Resurrection, that indeed for you is whatever you judge?
{سَلْهُمْ أَيُّهُمْ بِذَٰلِكَ زَعِيمٌ}
(40) Ask them which of them, for that [claim], is responsible.
{أَمْ لَهُمْ شُرَكَاءُ فَلْيَأْتُوا بِشُرَكَائِهِمْ إِنْ كَانُوا صَادِقِينَ}
(41) Or do they have partners?[1731] Then let them bring their partners, if they should be truthful.
{يَوْمَ يُكْشَفُ عَنْ سَاقٍ وَيُدْعَوْنَ إِلَى السُّجُودِ فَلَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ}
(42) The Day the shin will be uncovered[1732] and they are invited to prostration but they [i.e., the disbelievers] will not be able,
{خَاشِعَةً أَبْصَارُهُمْ تَرْهَقُهُمْ ذِلَّةٌ ۖ وَقَدْ كَانُوا يُدْعَوْنَ إِلَى السُّجُودِ وَهُمْ سَالِمُونَ}
(43) Their eyes humbled, humiliation will cover them. And they used to be invited to prostration while they were sound.[1733]
{فَذَرْنِي وَمَنْ يُكَذِّبُ بِهَٰذَا الْحَدِيثِ ۖ سَنَسْتَدْرِجُهُمْ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ}
(44) 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.[1734]
{أَمْ تَسْأَلُهُمْ أَجْرًا فَهُمْ مِنْ مَغْرَمٍ مُثْقَلُونَ}
(46) Or do you ask of them a payment, so they are by debt burdened down?
{أَمْ عِنْدَهُمُ الْغَيْبُ فَهُمْ يَكْتُبُونَ}
(47) Or have they [knowledge of] the unseen, so they write [it] down?
{فَاصْبِرْ لِحُكْمِ رَبِّكَ وَلَا تَكُنْ كَصَاحِبِ الْحُوتِ إِذْ نَادَىٰ وَهُوَ مَكْظُومٌ}
(48) 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.
{لَوْلَا أَنْ تَدَارَكَهُ نِعْمَةٌ مِنْ رَبِّهِ لَنُبِذَ بِالْعَرَاءِ وَهُوَ مَذْمُومٌ}
(49) 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.[1735]
{فَاجْتَبَاهُ رَبُّهُ فَجَعَلَهُ مِنَ الصَّالِحِينَ}
(50) And his Lord chose him and made him of the righteous.
{وَإِنْ يَكَادُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا لَيُزْلِقُونَكَ بِأَبْصَارِهِمْ لَمَّا سَمِعُوا الذِّكْرَ وَيَقُولُونَ إِنَّهُ لَمَجْنُونٌ}
(51) 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."