ٱلْقَلَم : ١٣

  • عُتُلِّ Cruel
  • بَعۡدَ after
  • ذَٰلِكَ (all) that
  • زَنِيمٍ utterly useless
Cruel, moreover, and an illegitimate pretender.1
Footnotes
1 i.e., claiming a particular lineage falsely. The description given in these verses is of al-Waleed bin al-Mugheerah (see also 74:11-25) or possibly, as asserted by Ibn Katheer, al-Akhnas bin Shurayq.
coarse-grained, crude, moreover ignoble, an adopted son of Quraysh - namely, al-Waleed ibn al-Mugheera, whose father claimed him after eighteen years; Ibn 'Abbaas said, 'We know of no one whom God has described in the derogatory way in which He describes him, blighting him with ignominy that will never leave him (the adverbial qualifier [ba'da dhaalika, 'moreover'] is semantically connected to zaneem, 'ignoble') -