الْقَلَم

Or have they some "Partners" (in Allahhead)? Then let them produce their "partners", if they are truthful!

The Day that the shin shall be laid bare, and they shall be summoned to bow in adoration, but they shall not be able,-

Their eyes will be cast down,- ignominy will cover them; seeing that they had been summoned aforetime to bow in adoration, while they were whole, (and had refused).

Then leave Me alone with such as reject this Message: by degrees shall We punish them from directions they perceive not.

A (long) respite will I grant them: truly powerful is My Plan.

Or is it that thou dost ask them for a reward, so that they are burdened with a load of debt?-

Or that the Unseen is in their hands, so that they can write it down?

So wait with patience for the Command of thy Lord, and be not like the Companion of the Fish,- when he cried out in agony.

Had not Grace from his Lord reached him, he would indeed have been cast off on the naked shore, in disgrace.

Thus did his Lord choose him and make him of the Company of the Righteous.

And the Unbelievers would almost trip thee up with their eyes when they hear the Message; and they say: "Surely he is possessed!"

But it is nothing less than a Message to all the worlds.