Al-Qalam 68:16 سنسمه على الخرطوم ١٦

1. Nun. By the pen and what the scribes write. 2. By your Lord's Grace, you are not afflicted with madness, 3. and surely yours shall be a never-ending reward, 4. and you are certainly on the most exalted standard of moral excellence. 5. So you will soon see, and they too will see, 6. which of you is afflicted with madness. 7. Surely your Lord knows well those who have strayed from His Way just as He knows well those who are on the Right Way. 8. Do not, then, yield to those who reject the Truth, decrying it as false; 9. they would wish you to be pliant so that they too may be pliant. 10. And do not yield to any contemptible swearer, 11. the fault-finder who goes around slandering, 12. the hinderer of good, the transgressor, the sinful; 13. the coarse-grained, and above all mean and ignoble; 14. (who so acts) simply because he has wealth and sons, 15. and whenever Our verses are rehearsed to him, he says: “These are fairy- tales of times gone by.” 16. Soon shall We brand him on his snout.

- A. Maududi (Tafhim commentary)