In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Nun. [These letters (Nun, etc.) are one of the miracles of the Qur'an, and none but Allah (Alone) knows their meanings]. By the pen and by what they (the angels) write (in the Records of men).
Shakir
By the grace of your Lord you are not mad.
Arabic, with marks
مَا أَنتَ بِنِعْمَةِ رَبِّكَ بِمَجْنُونٍ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
You (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم), by the Grace of your Lord, are not mad.
Shakir
And most surely you shall have a reward never to be cut off.
Arabic, with marks
وَإِنَّ لَكَ لَأَجْرًا غَيْرَ مَمْنُونٍ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
And Verily, for you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) will be an endless reward.
Shakir
And most surely you conform (yourself) to sublime morality.
Arabic, with marks
وَإِنَّكَ لَعَلَىٰ خُلُقٍ عَظِيمٍ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
And Verily, you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) are on an exalted (standard of) character.
Shakir
So you shall see, and they (too) shall see,
Arabic, with marks
فَسَتُبْصِرُ وَيُبْصِرُونَ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
You will see, and they will see,
Shakir
Which of you is afflicted with madness.
Arabic, with marks
بِأَييِّكُمُ الْمَفْتُونُ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
Which of you is afflicted with madness.
Shakir
Surely your Lord best knows him who errs from His way, and He best knows the followers of the right course.
Verily, your Lord is the Best Knower of him who has gone astray from His Path, and He is the Best Knower of those who are guided.
Shakir
So do not yield to the rejecters.
Arabic, with marks
فَلَا تُطِعِ الْمُكَذِّبِينَ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
So (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) obey you not the deniers [(of Islamic Monotheism - those who belie the Verses of Allah), the Oneness of Allah, and the Messengership of Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم]
Shakir
They wish that you should be pliant so they (too) would be pliant.
Arabic, with marks
وَدُّوا لَوْ تُدْهِنُ فَيُدْهِنُونَ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
They wish that you should compromise (in religion out of courtesy) with them: so they (too) would compromise with you.
Shakir
And yield not to any mean swearer
Arabic, with marks
وَلَا تُطِعْ كُلَّ حَلَّافٍ مَّهِينٍ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
And (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) obey you not everyone Hallaf Mahin (the one who swears much and is a liar or is worthless). [Tafsir At-Tabari]
Shakir
Defamer, going about with slander
Arabic, with marks
هَمَّازٍ مَّشَّاءٍ بِنَمِيمٍ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
A slanderer, going about with calumnies,
Shakir
Forbidder of good, outstepping the limits, sinful,
Arabic, with marks
مَّنَّاعٍ لِّلْخَيْرِ مُعْتَدٍ أَثِيمٍ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
Hinderer of the good, transgressor, sinful,
Shakir
Ignoble, besides all that, base - born;
Arabic, with marks
عُتُلٍّ بَعْدَ ذَٰلِكَ زَنِيمٍ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
Cruel, and moreover base-born (of illegitimate birth).
Shakir
Because he possesses wealth and sons.
Arabic, with marks
أَن كَانَ ذَا مَالٍ وَبَنِينَ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
(He was so) because he had wealth and children.
Shakir
When Our communications are recited to him, he says: Stories of those of yore.
We hope that our Lord will give us in exchange a better (garden) than this. Truly, we turn to our Lord (wishing for good that He may forgive our sins and reward us in the Hereafter).
Shakir
Such is the chastisement, and certainly the chastisement of the hereafter is greater, did they but know!
Verily, for the Muttaqun (the pious - See V.2:2) are Gardens of delight (Paradise) with their Lord.
Shakir
What! shall We then make (that is, treat) those who submit as the guilty?
Arabic, with marks
أَفَنَجْعَلُ الْمُسْلِمِينَ كَالْمُجْرِمِينَ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
Shall We then treat the Muslims (believers of Islamic Monotheism, doers of righteous deeds) like the Mujrimun (criminals, polytheists and disbelievers, etc.)?
Shakir
What has happened to you? How do you judge?
Arabic, with marks
مَا لَكُمْ كَيْفَ تَحْكُمُونَ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
What is the matter with you? How judge you?
Shakir
Or have you a book wherein you read,
Arabic, with marks
أَمْ لَكُمْ كِتَابٌ فِيهِ تَدْرُسُونَ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
Or have you a Book wherein you learn,
Shakir
That you have surely therein what you choose?
Arabic, with marks
إِنَّ لَكُمْ فِيهِ لَمَا تَخَيَّرُونَ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
That you shall therein have all that you choose?
Shakir
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?
(Remember) the Day when the Shin shall be laid bare (i.e. the Day of Resurrection) and they shall be called to prostrate themselves (to Allah), but they (hypocrites) shall not be able to do so.
Shakir
Their looks cast down, abasement shall overtake them; and they were called upon to make obeisance indeed while yet they were safe.
Their eyes will be cast down and ignominy will cover them; they used to be called to prostrate themselves (offer prayers), while they were healthy and good (in the life of the world, but they did not).
Shakir
So leave Me and him who rejects this announcement; We will overtake them by degrees, from whence they perceive not:
So wait with patience for the Decision of your Lord, and be not like the Companion of the Fish - when he cried out (to Us) while he was in deep sorrow. (See the Qur'an, Verse 21:87).
Shakir
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.
Had not a Grace from his Lord reached him, he would indeed have been (left in the stomach of the fish, but We forgave him): so he was cast off on the naked shore, while he was to be blamed.
Shakir
Then his Lord chose him, and He made him of the good.
And verily, those who disbelieve would almost make you slip with their eyes (through hatred) when they hear the Reminder (the Qur'an), and they say: "Verily, he (Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) is a madman!"
Shakir
And it is naught but a reminder to the nations.
Arabic, with marks
وَمَا هُوَ إِلَّا ذِكْرٌ لِّلْعَالَمِينَ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
But it is nothing else than a Reminder to all the 'Alamin (mankind, and jinn).