بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
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نٓ ۚ وَٱلْقَلَمِ وَمَا يَسْطُرُونَ
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Noon. I swear by the pen and what the angels write, - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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مَآ أَنتَ بِنِعْمَةِ رَبِّكَ بِمَجْنُونٍ
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By the grace of your Lord you are not mad. - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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وَإِنَّ لَكَ لَأَجْرًا غَيْرَ مَمْنُونٍ
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And most surely you shall have a reward never to be cut off. - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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وَإِنَّكَ لَعَلَىٰ خُلُقٍ عَظِيمٍ
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And most surely you conform (yourself) to sublime morality. - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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فَسَتُبْصِرُ وَيُبْصِرُونَ
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So you shall see, and they (too) shall see, - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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بِأَييِّكُمُ ٱلْمَفْتُونُ
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Which of you is afflicted with madness. - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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إِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِمَن ضَلَّ عَن سَبِيلِهِۦ وَهُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِٱلْمُهْتَدِينَ
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Surely your Lord best knows him who errs from His way, and He best knows the followers of the right course. - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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فَلَا تُطِعِ ٱلْمُكَذِّبِينَ
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So do not yield to the rejecters. - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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وَدُّوا۟ لَوْ تُدْهِنُ فَيُدْهِنُونَ
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They wish that you should be pliant so they (too) would be pliant. - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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وَلَا تُطِعْ كُلَّ حَلَّافٍ مَّهِينٍ
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And yield not to any mean swearer - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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هَمَّازٍ مَّشَّآءٍۭ بِنَمِيمٍ
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Defamer, going about with slander - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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مَّنَّاعٍ لِّلْخَيْرِ مُعْتَدٍ أَثِيمٍ
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Forbidder of good, outstepping the limits, sinful, - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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عُتُلٍّۭ بَعْدَ ذَٰلِكَ زَنِيمٍ
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Ignoble, besides all that, base-born; - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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أَن كَانَ ذَا مَالٍ وَبَنِينَ
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Because he possesses wealth and sons. - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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إِذَا تُتْلَىٰ عَلَيْهِ ءَايَـٰتُنَا قَالَ أَسَـٰطِيرُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ
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When Our communications are recited to him, he says: Stories of those of yore. - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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سَنَسِمُهُۥ عَلَى ٱلْخُرْطُومِ
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We will brand him on the nose. - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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إِنَّا بَلَوْنَـٰهُمْ كَمَا بَلَوْنَآ أَصْحَـٰبَ ٱلْجَنَّةِ إِذْ أَقْسَمُوا۟ لَيَصْرِمُنَّهَا مُصْبِحِينَ
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Surely We will try them as We tried the owners of the garden, when they swore that they would certainly cut off the produce in the morning, - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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وَلَا يَسْتَثْنُونَ
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And were not willing to set aside a portion (for the poor). - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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فَطَافَ عَلَيْهَا طَآئِفٌ مِّن رَّبِّكَ وَهُمْ نَآئِمُونَ
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Then there encompassed it a visitation from your Lord while they were sleeping. - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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فَأَصْبَحَتْ كَٱلصَّرِيمِ
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So it became as black, barren land. - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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فَتَنَادَوْا۟ مُصْبِحِينَ
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And they called out to each other in the morning, - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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أَنِ ٱغْدُوا۟ عَلَىٰ حَرْثِكُمْ إِن كُنتُمْ صَـٰرِمِينَ
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Saying: Go early to your tilth if you would cut (the produce). - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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فَٱنطَلَقُوا۟ وَهُمْ يَتَخَـٰفَتُونَ
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So they went, while they consulted together secretly, - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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أَن لَّا يَدْخُلَنَّهَا ٱلْيَوْمَ عَلَيْكُم مِّسْكِينٌ
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Saying: No poor man shall enter it today upon you. - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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وَغَدَوْا۟ عَلَىٰ حَرْدٍ قَـٰدِرِينَ
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And in the morning they went, having the power to prevent. - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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فَلَمَّا رَأَوْهَا قَالُوٓا۟ إِنَّا لَضَآلُّونَ
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But when they saw it, they said: Most surely we have gone astray - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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بَلْ نَحْنُ مَحْرُومُونَ
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Nay! we are made to suffer privation. - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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قَالَ أَوْسَطُهُمْ أَلَمْ أَقُل لَّكُمْ لَوْلَا تُسَبِّحُونَ
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The best of them said: Did I not say to you, Why do you not glorify (Allah)? - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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قَالُوا۟ سُبْحَـٰنَ رَبِّنَآ إِنَّا كُنَّا ظَـٰلِمِينَ
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They said: Glory be to our Lord, surely we were unjust. - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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فَأَقْبَلَ بَعْضُهُمْ عَلَىٰ بَعْضٍ يَتَلَـٰوَمُونَ
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Then some of them advanced against others, blaming each other. - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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قَالُوا۟ يَـٰوَيْلَنَآ إِنَّا كُنَّا طَـٰغِينَ
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Said they: O woe to us! surely we were inordinate: - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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عَسَىٰ رَبُّنَآ أَن يُبْدِلَنَا خَيْرًا مِّنْهَآ إِنَّآ إِلَىٰ رَبِّنَا رَٰغِبُونَ
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Maybe, our Lord will give us instead one better than it; surely to our Lord do we make our humble petition. - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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كَذَٰلِكَ ٱلْعَذَابُ ۖ وَلَعَذَابُ ٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ أَكْبَرُ ۚ لَوْ كَانُوا۟ يَعْلَمُونَ
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Such is the chastisement, and certainly the chastisement of the hereafter is greater, did they but know! - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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إِنَّ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ عِندَ رَبِّهِمْ جَنَّـٰتِ ٱلنَّعِيمِ
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Surely those who guard (against evil) shall have with their Lord gardens of bliss. - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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أَفَنَجْعَلُ ٱلْمُسْلِمِينَ كَٱلْمُجْرِمِينَ
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What! shall We then make (that is, treat) those who submit as the guilty? - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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مَا لَكُمْ كَيْفَ تَحْكُمُونَ
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What has happened to you? How do you judge? - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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أَمْ لَكُمْ كِتَـٰبٌ فِيهِ تَدْرُسُونَ
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Or have you a book wherein you read, - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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إِنَّ لَكُمْ فِيهِ لَمَا تَخَيَّرُونَ
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That you have surely therein what you choose? - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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أَمْ لَكُمْ أَيْمَـٰنٌ عَلَيْنَا بَـٰلِغَةٌ إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ ٱلْقِيَـٰمَةِ ۙ إِنَّ لَكُمْ لَمَا تَحْكُمُونَ
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Or have you received from Us an agreement confirmed by an oath extending to the day of resurrection that you shall surely have what you demand? - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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سَلْهُمْ أَيُّهُم بِذَٰلِكَ زَعِيمٌ
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Ask them which of them will vouch for that, - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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أَمْ لَهُمْ شُرَكَآءُ فَلْيَأْتُوا۟ بِشُرَكَآئِهِمْ إِن كَانُوا۟ صَـٰدِقِينَ
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Or have they associates if they are truthful. - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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يَوْمَ يُكْشَفُ عَن سَاقٍ وَيُدْعَوْنَ إِلَى ٱلسُّجُودِ فَلَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ
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On the day when there shall be a severe affliction, and they shall be called upon to make obeisance, but they shall not be able, - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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خَـٰشِعَةً أَبْصَـٰرُهُمْ تَرْهَقُهُمْ ذِلَّةٌ ۖ وَقَدْ كَانُوا۟ يُدْعَوْنَ إِلَى ٱلسُّجُودِ وَهُمْ سَـٰلِمُونَ
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Their looks cast down, abasement shall overtake them; and they were called upon to make obeisance indeed while yet they were safe. - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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فَذَرْنِى وَمَن يُكَذِّبُ بِهَـٰذَا ٱلْحَدِيثِ ۖ سَنَسْتَدْرِجُهُم مِّنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ
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So leave Me and him who rejects this announcement; We will overtake them by degrees, from whence they perceive not: - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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وَأُمْلِى لَهُمْ ۚ إِنَّ كَيْدِى مَتِينٌ
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And I do bear with them, surely My plan is firm. - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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أَمْ تَسْـَٔلُهُمْ أَجْرًا فَهُم مِّن مَّغْرَمٍ مُّثْقَلُونَ
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Or do you ask from them a reward, so that they are burdened with debt? - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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أَمْ عِندَهُمُ ٱلْغَيْبُ فَهُمْ يَكْتُبُونَ
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Or have they (the knowledge of) the unseen, so that they write (it) down? - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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فَٱصْبِرْ لِحُكْمِ رَبِّكَ وَلَا تَكُن كَصَاحِبِ ٱلْحُوتِ إِذْ نَادَىٰ وَهُوَ مَكْظُومٌ
68:48
So wait patiently for the judgment of your Lord, and be not like the companion of the fish, when he cried while he was in distress. - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
68:49
لَّوْلَآ أَن تَدَٰرَكَهُۥ نِعْمَةٌ مِّن رَّبِّهِۦ لَنُبِذَ بِٱلْعَرَآءِ وَهُوَ مَذْمُومٌ
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Were it not that favor from his Lord had overtaken him, he would certainly have been cast down upon the naked Found while he was blamed. - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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فَٱجْتَبَـٰهُ رَبُّهُۥ فَجَعَلَهُۥ مِنَ ٱلصَّـٰلِحِينَ
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Then his Lord chose him, and He made him of the good. - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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وَإِن يَكَادُ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ لَيُزْلِقُونَكَ بِأَبْصَـٰرِهِمْ لَمَّا سَمِعُوا۟ ٱلذِّكْرَ وَيَقُولُونَ إِنَّهُۥ لَمَجْنُونٌ
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And those who disbelieve would almost smite you with their eyes when they hear the reminder, and they say: Most surely he is mad. - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)
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وَمَا هُوَ إِلَّا ذِكْرٌ لِّلْعَـٰلَمِينَ
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And it is naught but a reminder to the nations. - Mohammad Habib Shakir (English)