Nun. By the pen and what they inscribe,  

ن ۚ وَالْقَلَمِ وَمَا يَسْطُرُونَ  

You are not, ˹O Muhammad˺, by the favor of your Lord, a madman.  

مَا أَنْتَ بِنِعْمَةِ رَبِّكَ بِمَجْنُونٍ  

And indeed, for you is a reward uninterrupted.  

وَإِنَّ لَكَ لَأَجْرًا غَيْرَ مَمْنُونٍ  

And indeed, you are of a great moral character.  

وَإِنَّكَ لَعَلَىٰ خُلُقٍ عَظِيمٍ  

So you will see and they will see  

فَسَتُبْصِرُ وَيُبْصِرُونَ  

Which of you is the afflicted ˹by a devil˺.  

بِأَيْيِكُمُ الْمَفْتُونُ  

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

إِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِمَنْ ضَلَّ عَنْ سَبِيلِهِ وَهُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِالْمُهْتَدِينَ  

Then do not obey the deniers.  

فَلَا تُطِعِ الْمُكَذِّبِينَ  

They wish that you would soften ˹in your position˺, so they would soften ˹toward you˺.  

وَدُّوا لَوْ تُدْهِنُ فَيُدْهِنُونَ  

And do not obey every worthless habitual swearer  

وَلَا تُطِعْ كُلَّ حَلَّافٍ مَهِينٍ  

˹And˺ scorner, going about with malicious gossip -  

هَمَّازٍ مَشَّاءٍ بِنَمِيمٍ  

A preventer of good, transgressing and sinful,  

مَنَّاعٍ لِلْخَيْرِ مُعْتَدٍ أَثِيمٍ  

Cruel, moreover, and an illegitimate pretender.  

عُتُلٍّ بَعْدَ ذَٰلِكَ زَنِيمٍ  

Because he is a possessor of wealth and children,  

أَنْ كَانَ ذَا مَالٍ وَبَنِينَ  

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

إِذَا تُتْلَىٰ عَلَيْهِ آيَاتُنَا قَالَ أَسَاطِيرُ الْأَوَّلِينَ  

We will brand him upon the snout.  

سَنَسِمُهُ عَلَى الْخُرْطُومِ