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Qur’an 68:1 Al-Qalam, verse 1

نٓ ۚ وَٱلْقَلَمِ وَمَا يَسْطُرُونَ

Nun. By the pen and what they inscribe,

Translation: Saheeh International. Brackets mark words added for clarity.

Surah: Al-Qalam (68)
Verse: 1 of 52
Revealed: Makki
Juz: 29
Mushaf page: 564

Word by word

Arabic	Transliteration	Meaning	Root
نٓ ۚ	noon	Nun
وَٱلْقَلَمِ	wal-qalami	By the pen	ق ل م
وَمَا	wamā	and what
يَسْطُرُونَ	yasṭurūna	they write	س ط ر

Tap a root to see every word built from it. Root and lemma data: Quranic Arabic Corpus (Kais Dukes, University of Leeds), revised by quran-morphology, GNU GPL. All sources.

In context

The verses around 68:1 in Al-Qalam.

68:2مَآ أَنتَ بِنِعْمَةِ رَبِّكَ بِمَجْنُونٍۢYou are not, [O Muhammad], by the favor of your Lord, a madman.
68:3وَإِنَّ لَكَ لَأَجْرًا غَيْرَ مَمْنُونٍۢAnd indeed, for you is a reward uninterrupted.

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