Surah al-Qalam (The Pen ) 68 : 16

سَنَسِمُهُۥ عَلَى ٱلْخُرْطُومِ

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 Muhsin Khan
 Pickthall
 Yusuf Ali
Quran Project
We will brand him upon the snout.

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Explanatory Note

He hears now a threat that will inevitably be fulfilled. The Arabic word khurram, translated here as snout, means, among other things, the nose of a wild pig. Perhaps this is the meaning intended here, denoting his nose. In Arabic, the nose connotes dignity. People refer to an honourable person as one of high nose, while a humiliated one is described as having his nose in the dust. Hence, the threat of branding him on his nose connotes double humiliation: being branded like slaves used to be, and his nose being referred to as a snout or pig's nose.

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This is one of the earliest Surahs to be revealed at Makkah and its subject matter shows that it was sent down at the time when opposition to the Prophet had grown very harsh and oppressive.

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