ٱلْقَلَم : ١٨

  • وَلَا And not
  • يَسۡتَثۡنُونَ making exception
Without making exception.1
Footnotes
1 i.e., without conceding that nothing can be accomplished unless Allāh wills, saying, "...if Allāh wills" ("in-shā’-Allāh"). See 18:23-24.
And they did not make any exception, to their vow, for God's will (the sentence is a new [syntactically independent] one, in other words: and that was their condition).