Surah Al-Qalam in Arabic and English

1. 1 Al-Qalam 68:1

   نٓ وَالْقَلَمِ وَمَا يَسْطُرُونَۙ

   Transliteration

   Noon waalqalami wamā yasṭuroona

   Translation

   Nun. By the pen and what they inscribe,

2. 2 Al-Qalam 68:2

   مَٓا اَنْتَ بِنِعْمَةِ رَبِّكَ بِمَجْنُونٍۚ

   Transliteration

   Mā anta biniʿmati rabbika bimajnoonin

   Translation

   You are not, [O Muhammad], by the favor of your Lord, a madman.

3. 3 Al-Qalam 68:3

   وَاِنَّ لَكَ لَاَجْراً غَيْرَ مَمْنُونٍۚ

   Transliteration

   Wainna laka laajran ghayra mamnoonin

   Translation

   And indeed, for you is a reward uninterrupted.

4. 4 Al-Qalam 68:4

   وَاِنَّكَ لَعَلٰى خُلُقٍ عَظٖيمٍ

   Transliteration

   Wainnaka laʿalā khuluqin ʿatheemin

   Translation

   And indeed, you are of a great moral character.

5. 5 Al-Qalam 68:5

   فَسَتُبْصِرُ وَيُبْصِرُونَۙ

   Transliteration

   Fasatubṣiru wayubṣiroona

   Translation

   So you will see and they will see

6. 6 Al-Qalam 68:6

   بِاَيِّكُمُ الْمَفْتُونُ

   Transliteration

   Biayyikumu almaftoonu

   Translation

   Which of you is the afflicted [by a devil].

7. 7 Al-Qalam 68:7

   اِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ اَعْلَمُ بِمَنْ ضَلَّ عَنْ سَبٖيلِهٖۖ وَهُوَ اَعْلَمُ بِالْمُهْتَدٖينَ

   Transliteration

   Inna rabbaka huwa aʿlamu biman ḏalla ʿan sabeelihi wahuwa aʿlamu bialmuhtadeena

   Translation

   Indeed, your Lord is most knowing of who has gone astray from His way, and He is most knowing of the [rightly] guided.

8. 8 Al-Qalam 68:8

   فَلَا تُطِـعِ الْمُكَذِّبٖينَ

   Transliteration

   Falā tuṭiʿi almukaththibeena

   Translation

   Then do not obey the deniers.

9. 9 Al-Qalam 68:9

   وَدُّوا لَوْ تُدْهِنُ فَيُدْهِنُونَ

   Transliteration

   Waddoo law tudhinu fayudhinoona

   Translation

   They wish that you would soften [in your position], so they would soften [toward you].

10. 10 Al-Qalam 68:10

    وَلَا تُطِـعْ كُلَّ حَلَّافٍ مَهٖينٍۙ

    Transliteration

    Walā tuṭiʿ kulla ḥallāfin maheenin

    Translation

    And do not obey every worthless habitual swearer

11. 11 Al-Qalam 68:11

    هَمَّازٍ مَشَّٓاءٍ بِنَمٖيمٍۙ

    Transliteration

    Hammāzin mashshāin binameemin

    Translation

    [And] scorner, going about with malicious gossip -

12. 12 Al-Qalam 68:12

    مَنَّاعٍ لِلْخَيْرِ مُعْتَدٍ اَثٖيمٍۙ

    Transliteration

    Mannāʿin lilkhayri muʿtadin atheemin

    Translation

    A preventer of good, transgressing and sinful,

13. 13 Al-Qalam 68:13

    عُتُلٍّ بَعْدَ ذٰلِكَ زَنٖيمٍۙ

    Transliteration

    ʿutullin baʿda thālika zaneemin

    Translation

    Cruel, moreover, and an illegitimate pretender.

14. 14 Al-Qalam 68:14

    اَنْ كَانَ ذَا مَالٍ وَبَنٖينَؕ

    Transliteration

    An kāna thā mālin wabaneena

    Translation

    Because he is a possessor of wealth and children,

15. 15 Al-Qalam 68:15

    اِذَا تُتْلٰى عَلَيْهِ اٰيَاتُنَا قَالَ اَسَاطٖيرُ الْاَوَّلٖينَ

    Transliteration

    Ithā tutlā ʿalayhi āyātunā qāla asāṭeeru alawwaleena

    Translation

    When Our verses are recited to him, he says, "Legends of the former peoples."

16. 16 Al-Qalam 68:16

    سَنَسِمُهُ عَلَى الْخُرْطُومِ

    Transliteration

    Sanasimuhu ʿalā alkhurṭoomi

    Translation

    We will brand him upon the snout.

17. 17 Al-Qalam 68:17

    اِنَّا بَلَوْنَاهُمْ كَمَا بَلَوْنَٓا اَصْحَابَ الْجَنَّةِۚ اِذْ اَقْسَمُوا لَيَصْرِمُنَّهَا مُصْبِحٖينَۙ

    Transliteration

    Innā balawnāhum kamā balawnā aṣḥāba aljannati ith aqsamoo layaṣrimunnahā muṣbiḥeena

    Translation

    Indeed, We have tried them as We tried the companions of the garden, when they swore to cut its fruit in the [early] morning

18. 18 Al-Qalam 68:18

    وَلَا يَسْتَثْنُونَ

    Transliteration

    Walā yastathnoona

    Translation

    Without making exception.

19. 19 Al-Qalam 68:19

    فَطَافَ عَلَيْهَا طَٓائِفٌ مِنْ رَبِّكَ وَهُمْ نَٓائِمُونَ

    Transliteration

    Faṭāfa ʿalayhā ṭāifun min rabbika wahum nāimoona

    Translation

    So there came upon the garden an affliction from your Lord while they were asleep.

20. 20 Al-Qalam 68:20

    فَاَصْبَحَتْ كَالصَّرٖيمِ

    Transliteration

    Faaṣbaḥat kaalṣṣareemi

    Translation

    And it became as though reaped.

21. 21 Al-Qalam 68:21

    فَتَنَادَوْا مُصْبِحٖينَۙ

    Transliteration

    Fatanādaw muṣbiḥeena

    Translation

    And they called one another at morning,

22. 22 Al-Qalam 68:22

    اَنِ اغْدُوا عَلٰى حَرْثِكُمْ اِنْ كُنْتُمْ صَارِمٖينَ

    Transliteration

    Ani ighdoo ʿalā ḥarthikum in kuntum ṣārimeena

    Translation

    [Saying], "Go early to your crop if you would cut the fruit."

23. 23 Al-Qalam 68:23

    فَانْطَلَقُوا وَهُمْ يَتَخَافَتُونَۙ

    Transliteration

    Fainṭalaqoo wahum yatakhāfatoona

    Translation

    So they set out, while lowering their voices,

24. 24 Al-Qalam 68:24

    اَنْ لَا يَدْخُلَنَّهَا الْيَوْمَ عَلَيْكُمْ مِسْكٖينٌ

    Transliteration

    An lā yadkhulannahā alyawma ʿalaykum miskeenun

    Translation

    [Saying], "There will surely not enter it today upon you [any] poor person."

25. 25 Al-Qalam 68:25

    وَغَدَوْا عَلٰى حَرْدٍ قَادِرٖينَ

    Transliteration

    Waghadaw ʿalā ḥardin qādireena

    Translation

    And they went early in determination, [assuming themselves] able.

26. 26 Al-Qalam 68:26

    فَلَمَّا رَاَوْهَا قَالُٓوا اِنَّا لَضَٓالُّونَۙ

    Transliteration

    Falammā raawhā qāloo innā laḏālloona

    Translation

    But when they saw it, they said, "Indeed, we are lost;

27. 27 Al-Qalam 68:27

    بَلْ نَحْنُ مَحْرُومُونَ

    Transliteration

    Bal naḥnu maḥroomoona

    Translation

    Rather, we have been deprived."

28. 28 Al-Qalam 68:28

    قَالَ اَوْسَطُهُمْ اَلَمْ اَقُلْ لَكُمْ لَوْلَا تُسَبِّحُونَ

    Transliteration

    Qāla awsaṭuhum alam aqul lakum lawlā tusabbiḥoona

    Translation

    The most moderate of them said, "Did I not say to you, 'Why do you not exalt [Allah]?' "

29. 29 Al-Qalam 68:29

    قَالُوا سُبْحَانَ رَبِّنَٓا اِنَّا كُنَّا ظَالِمٖينَ

    Transliteration

    Qāloo subḥāna rabbinā innā kunnā thālimeena

    Translation

    They said, "Exalted is our Lord! Indeed, we were wrongdoers."

30. 30 Al-Qalam 68:30

    فَاَقْبَلَ بَعْضُهُمْ عَلٰى بَعْضٍ يَتَلَاوَمُونَ

    Transliteration

    Faaqbala baʿḏuhum ʿalā baʿḏin yatalāwamoona

    Translation

    Then they approached one another, blaming each other.

31. 31 Al-Qalam 68:31

    قَالُوا يَا وَيْلَنَٓا اِنَّا كُنَّا طَاغٖينَ

    Transliteration

    Qāloo yā waylanā innā kunnā ṭāgheena

    Translation

    They said, "O woe to us; indeed we were transgressors.

32. 32 Al-Qalam 68:32

    عَسٰى رَبُّنَٓا اَنْ يُبْدِلَنَا خَيْراً مِنْهَٓا اِنَّٓا اِلٰى رَبِّنَا رَاغِبُونَ

    Transliteration

    ʿasā rabbunā an yubdilanā khayran minhā innā ilā rabbinā rāghiboona

    Translation

    Perhaps our Lord will substitute for us [one] better than it. Indeed, we are toward our Lord desirous."

33. 33 Al-Qalam 68:33

    كَذٰلِكَ الْعَذَابُؕ وَلَعَذَابُ الْاٰخِرَةِ اَكْبَرُۘ لَوْ كَانُوا يَعْلَمُونَࣖ

    Transliteration

    Kathālika alʿathābu walaʿathābu alākhirati akbaru law kānoo yaʿlamoona

    Translation

    Such is the punishment [of this world]. And the punishment of the Hereafter is greater, if they only knew.

34. 34 Al-Qalam 68:34

    اِنَّ لِلْمُتَّقٖينَ عِنْدَ رَبِّهِمْ جَنَّاتِ النَّعٖيمِ

    Transliteration

    Inna lilmuttaqeena ʿinda rabbihim jannāti alnnaʿeemi

    Translation

    Indeed, for the righteous with their Lord are the Gardens of Pleasure.

35. 35 Al-Qalam 68:35

    اَفَنَجْعَلُ الْمُسْلِمٖينَ كَالْمُجْرِمٖينَؕ

    Transliteration

    Afanajʿalu almuslimeena kaalmujrimeena

    Translation

    Then will We treat the Muslims like the criminals?

36. 36 Al-Qalam 68:36

    مَا لَكُمْࣞ كَـيْفَ تَحْكُمُونَۚ

    Transliteration

    Mā lakum kayfa taḥkumoona

    Translation

    What is [the matter] with you? How do you judge?

37. 37 Al-Qalam 68:37

    اَمْ لَكُمْ كِتَابٌ فٖيهِ تَدْرُسُونَۙ

    Transliteration

    Am lakum kitābun feehi tadrusoona

    Translation

    Or do you have a scripture in which you learn

38. 38 Al-Qalam 68:38

    اِنَّ لَكُمْ فٖيهِ لَمَا تَخَيَّرُونَۚ

    Transliteration

    Inna lakum feehi lamā takhayyaroona

    Translation

    That indeed for you is whatever you choose?

39. 39 Al-Qalam 68:39

    اَمْ لَكُمْ اَيْمَانٌ عَلَيْنَا بَالِغَةٌ اِلٰى يَوْمِ الْقِيٰمَةِۙ اِنَّ لَكُمْ لَمَا تَحْكُمُونَۚ

    Transliteration

    Am lakum aymānun ʿalaynā bālighatun ilā yawmi alqiyāmati inna lakum lamā taḥkumoona

    Translation

    Or do you have oaths [binding] upon Us, extending until the Day of Resurrection, that indeed for you is whatever you judge?

40. 40 Al-Qalam 68:40

    سَلْهُمْ اَيُّهُمْ بِذٰلِكَ زَعٖيمٌۚۛ

    Transliteration

    Salhum ayyuhum bithālika zaʿeemun

    Translation

    Ask them which of them, for that [claim], is responsible.

41. 41 Al-Qalam 68:41

    اَمْ لَهُمْ شُرَكَٓاءُۚۛ فَلْيَأْتُوا بِشُرَكَٓائِهِمْ اِنْ كَانُوا صَادِقٖينَ

    Transliteration

    Am lahum shurakāo falyatoo bishurakāihim in kānoo ṣādiqeena

    Translation

    Or do they have partners? Then let them bring their partners, if they should be truthful.

42. 42 Al-Qalam 68:42

    يَوْمَ يُكْشَفُ عَنْ سَاقٍ وَيُدْعَوْنَ اِلَى السُّجُودِ فَلَا يَسْتَطٖيعُونَۙ

    Transliteration

    Yawma yukshafu ʿan sāqin wayudʿawna ilā alssujoodi falā yastaṭeeʿoona

    Translation

    The Day the shin will be uncovered and they are invited to prostration but the disbelievers will not be able,

43. 43 Al-Qalam 68:43

    خَاشِعَةً اَبْصَارُهُمْ تَرْهَقُهُمْ ذِلَّةٌؕ وَقَدْ كَانُوا يُدْعَوْنَ اِلَى السُّجُودِ وَهُمْ سَالِمُونَ

    Transliteration

    Khāshiʿatan abṣāruhum tarhaquhum thillatun waqad kānoo yudʿawna ilā alssujoodi wahum sālimoona

    Translation

    Their eyes humbled, humiliation will cover them. And they used to be invited to prostration while they were sound.

44. 44 Al-Qalam 68:44

    فَذَرْنٖي وَمَنْ يُكَذِّبُ بِهٰذَا الْحَدٖيثِؕ سَنَسْتَدْرِجُهُمْ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَعْلَمُونَۙ

    Transliteration

    Fatharnee waman yukaththibu bihāthā alḥadeethi sanastadrijuhum min ḥaythu lā yaʿlamoona

    Translation

    So leave Me, [O Muhammad], with [the matter of] whoever denies the Qur'an. We will progressively lead them [to punishment] from where they do not know.

45. 45 Al-Qalam 68:45

    وَاُمْلٖي لَهُمْؕ اِنَّ كَيْدٖي مَتٖينٌ

    Transliteration

    Waomlee lahum inna kaydee mateenun

    Translation

    And I will give them time. Indeed, My plan is firm.

46. 46 Al-Qalam 68:46

    اَمْ تَسْـَٔلُهُمْ اَجْراً فَهُمْ مِنْ مَغْرَمٍ مُثْقَلُونَۚ

    Transliteration

    Am tasaluhum ajran fahum min maghramin muthqaloona

    Translation

    Or do you ask of them a payment, so they are by debt burdened down?

47. 47 Al-Qalam 68:47

    اَمْ عِنْدَهُمُ الْغَيْبُ فَهُمْ يَكْتُبُونَ

    Transliteration

    Am ʿindahumu alghaybu fahum yaktuboona

    Translation

    Or have they [knowledge of] the unseen, so they write [it] down?

48. 48 Al-Qalam 68:48

    فَاصْبِرْ لِحُكْمِ رَبِّكَ وَلَا تَكُنْ كَصَاحِبِ الْحُوتِۘ اِذْ نَادٰى وَهُوَ مَكْظُومٌؕ

    Transliteration

    Faiṣbir liḥukmi rabbika walā takun kaṣāḥibi alḥooti ith nādā wahuwa makthoomun

    Translation

    Then be patient for the decision of your Lord, [O Muhammad], and be not like the companion of the fish when he called out while he was distressed.

49. 49 Al-Qalam 68:49

    لَوْلَٓا اَنْ تَدَارَكَهُ نِعْمَةٌ مِنْ رَبِّهٖ لَنُبِذَ بِالْعَرَٓاءِ وَهُوَ مَذْمُومٌ

    Transliteration

    Lawlā an tadārakahu niʿmatun min rabbihi lanubitha bialʿarāi wahuwa mathmoomun

    Translation

    If not that a favor from his Lord overtook him, he would have been thrown onto the naked shore while he was censured.

50. 50 Al-Qalam 68:50

    فَاجْتَبٰيهُ رَبُّهُ فَجَعَلَهُ مِنَ الصَّالِحٖينَ

    Transliteration

    Faijtabāhu rabbuhu fajaʿalahu mina alṣṣāliḥeena

    Translation

    And his Lord chose him and made him of the righteous.

51. 51 Al-Qalam 68:51

    وَاِنْ يَكَادُ الَّذٖينَ كَـفَرُوا لَيُزْلِقُونَكَ بِاَبْصَارِهِمْ لَمَّا سَمِعُوا الذِّ كْرَ وَيَقُولُونَ اِنَّهُ لَمَجْنُونٌۘ

    Transliteration

    Wain yakādu allatheena kafaroo layuzliqoonaka biabṣārihim lammā samiʿoo alththikra wayaqooloona innahu lamajnoonun

    Translation

    And indeed, those who disbelieve would almost make you slip with their eyes when they hear the message, and they say, "Indeed, he is mad."

52. 52 Al-Qalam 68:52

    وَمَا هُوَ اِلَّا ذِ كْرٌ لِلْعَالَمٖينَ

    Transliteration

    Wamā huwa illā thikrun lilʿālameena

    Translation

    But it is not except a reminder to the worlds.

Translation: Saheeh International. Arabic text: Mushaf of the Presidency of Religious Affairs of Türkiye (Diyanet), 605 pages; kuran.diyanet.gov.tr. Transliteration: Açık Kuran (acikkuran.com).