⁵⁰ Say thou: “I say not to you: ‘I possess the treasuries of God,’ or: ‘I know the Unseen,’¹ nor do I say to you: ‘I am an angel.’ I follow only what is revealed² to me.” Say thou: “Are the blind and the seeing equal?” Will you then not³ take thought!

⁵¹ And warn thou thereby¹ those who fear that they will be gathered to their Lord, — they have no ally or intercessor besides² Him — that they might be in prudent fear.³

⁵² And drive thou not away those who call to their Lord morning and evening, seeking His face — not upon thee is anything of their account, and nothing of thy account is upon them — for thou shouldst drive them away, and be of the wrongdoers.¹

⁵³ And thus¹ We subjected some of them to means of denial by others:² that they might say: “Are these they whom God has favoured among us?” Does then God not³ best know the grateful?

⁵⁴ And when there come to thee those who believe in¹ Our proofs,² say thou: “Peace be upon you! Your Lord has prescribed for Himself mercy,³ that whoso of you does evil through ignorance, then turns in repentance after that and makes right: He is forgiving and merciful.”

⁵⁵ And thus¹ We set out and detail² the proofs;³ and that the path of the lawbreakers might be made manifest:⁴

⁵⁶ Say thou: “I have been forbidden to serve those to whom you call besides¹ God.” Say thou: “I do not follow your vain desires,² else had I gone astray, and would not be of the guided.”

⁵⁷ Say thou: “I am upon clear evidence from my Lord, and you have denied it. I have not that which you seek to hasten;¹ judgment is but for God. He relates the truth,² and He is the best to decide.”³

⁵⁸ Say thou: “Had I what you seek to hasten, the matter would have been concluded between me and you; and God best knows the wrongdoers.”¹

⁵⁹ And with Him are the keys of the Unseen; and none knows them but He. And He knows what is in the land and the sea; and not a leaf falls but He knows it; nor is there a grain in the darknesses of the earth, and nothing moist or dry, but is in a clear writ.¹

⁶⁰ And He it is that takes¹ you at night, and knows what you earned by day; then He raises you up therein² that there be fulfilled a stated term; then to Him will be your return; then will He inform you of what you did.

⁶¹ And He is the Conqueror over His servants; and He sends guardians over you. When¹ death has come to one of you, Our messengers² take him, and they fail³ not;

⁶² Then are they sent back to God their true¹ protector. In truth,² His is the judgment, and He is the swiftest of account-takers.

⁶³ Say thou: “Who delivers you from the darknesses of the land and the sea? You call to Him humbly and in secret: ‘If He delivers us from this, we will be among the grateful.’”

⁶⁴ Say thou: “God delivers you from it and from every¹ distress; then you ascribe a partnership.”²

⁶⁵ Say thou: “He is the one able to send punishment upon you from above you or from beneath your feet,¹ or to confound you through sects and let some of you taste the might of others.” See thou how We expound the proofs,² that they might understand,

⁶⁶ But thy people have denied it when it is the truth.¹ Say thou: “I am not a guardian over you.”

⁶⁷ Every report has a dwelling-place;¹ and you will come to know.

⁶⁸ And when thou seest those who discourse vainly¹ concerning Our proofs,² turn thou away from them until they discourse vainly concerning a subject³ other than it; and if the satan⁴ cause thee to forget, then sit thou not ­after the reminder with the wrongdoing⁵ people.

⁶⁹ And not upon those of prudent fear¹ is any account for them in anything but a reminder,² that they might be in prudent fear.³

⁷⁰ And leave thou those who take their doctrine¹ as play and diversion, and whom the life of this world has deluded; and remind thou with it² lest a soul be given up to destruction³ for what it earned; it has not, besides⁴ God, ally or intercessor. And though⁵ it offer in compensation every equivalence, it will not be accepted from it: those are they who are given up to destruction for what they earned; they have scalding water and a painful punishment for what they denied.

⁷¹ Say thou: “Shall we call, rather than¹ to God, to what neither profits us nor harms us, and be turned back on our heels after God has guided us? — like one whom the satans² seduce in the earth, lost in confusion, he having companions inviting him to guidance:³ ‘Come thou to us!’” Say thou: “The guidance of God, that is guidance; and we have been commanded to submit to the Lord of All Creation”;

⁷² And: “Uphold the duty,¹ and be in prudent fear² of Him”; and He it is to whom you will be gathered.

⁷³ And He it is that created the heavens and the earth in truth.¹ And the day He says: “Be thou,” then it is. His word is the truth.² And to Him belongs the dominion the day the Trumpet is blown — the Knower of the Unseen and the Seen — and He is the Wise, the Aware.

⁷⁴ And when Abraham said to his father Āzar:¹ “Takest thou idols² as gods?³ I see thee and thy people in manifest error.”⁴

⁷⁵ And thus¹ We showed Abraham the kingdom of the heavens and the earth; and that he might be of those who are certain.²

⁷⁶ Then when the night covered him, he saw a star. He said: “This is my Lord.” Then when it set¹ he said: “I love not those that set.”²

⁷⁷ Then when he saw the moon rising¹ he said: “This is my Lord.” Then when it set² he said: “If my Lord guide me not, I will be of the people who stray.”³

⁷⁸ Then when he saw the sun rising¹ he said: “This is my Lord; this is greater!”² Then when it set³ he said: “O my people: I am quit of that to which you ascribe a partnership.⁴

⁷⁹ “I have turned my face towards Him who created the heavens and the earth, inclining to truth;¹ and I am not of the idolaters.”²

⁸⁰ And his people disputed with him. He said: “Dispute you with me concerning God, when He has guided me?¹ And I fear not that to which you ascribe a partnership,² save that my Lord should will anything. My Lord encompasses all things in knowledge. Will you then not³ take heed!

⁸¹ “And how should I fear that to which you ascribe a partnership¹ when you fear not that you ascribe a partnership² with God to that for which He has not sent down upon you authority? Then which of the two factions is worthier³ of security, if you know?

⁸² “Those who heed warning¹ and clothe not their faith in injustice: those have security, and they are guided.”

⁸³ And that¹ is Our argument² We gave to Abraham against his people. We raise in degree³ whom We will; thy Lord is wise and knowing.

⁸⁴ And We gave him Isaac and Jacob; each We guided; and Noah did We guide before; and of his progeny David and Solomon and Job¹ and Joseph² and Moses and Aaron; and thus³ We reward the doers of good;⁴

⁸⁵ And Zachariah and John¹ and Jesus² and Elijah;³ each was among the righteous;

⁸⁶ And Ishmael and Elisha¹ and Jonah² and Lot;³ and each did We prefer above all mankind;

⁸⁷ And some of their fathers and their progeny and their brethren; and We chose them and guided them to a straight path:

⁸⁸ That is the guidance of God wherewith He guides whom He wills of His servants; and had they¹ ascribed a partnership,² vain for them would have been what they did.

⁸⁹ Those are they to whom We¹ gave the Writ² and judgment and prophethood; so if these³ deny them,⁴ We have already entrusted them to people who do not deny them.

⁹⁰ Those are they whom God has guided; so follow thou¹ their guidance. Say thou: “I ask of you for it no reward; it is only a reminder to all mankind.”

⁹¹ And they measured God not with the measure due¹ Him when they said: “God has not sent down upon a mortal anything.” Say thou: “Who sent down the Writ² which Moses brought as a light and guidance for men?” (You make it into parchments which you show; and you conceal much; and you were taught what you knew not, you and your fathers.) Say thou: “God”; then leave thou them playing in their vain discourses.³

⁹² And this¹ is a Writ² We have sent down,³ one blessed, confirming what was before it,⁴ and that thou warn the mother of cities⁵ and those around her; and those who believe in⁶ the Hereafter believe in⁷ it, and they preserve their duty.⁸

⁹³ And who is more unjust than he who invents a lie about God, or says: “It has been revealed to me,”¹ when nothing has been revealed² to him, and who says: “I will send down the like of what God sent down”? And if thou couldst see when the wrongdoers³ are in the throes of death and the angels stretching out their hands: “Bring forth your souls; this day are you rewarded with the punishment of humiliation because you ascribed to God other than the truth,⁴ and waxed proud at His proofs!”[...].⁵

⁹⁴ “And now have you come to Us alone, as We created you the first time; and you have left all that We conferred upon you behind your backs; and We see not with you your intercessors which you claimed were among you as partners;¹ it² is cut off between you, and strayed from you is what you claimed.”

⁹⁵ God splits the seed and the kernel; He brings forth the living from the dead and is the bringer-forth of the dead from the living. That is God, — how then are you deluded? —

⁹⁶ The cleaver of daybreak; and He has appointed the night as rest, and the sun and the moon for reckoning.¹ That is the determination of the Exalted in Might, the Knowing.

⁹⁷ And He it is that made for you the stars, that you might be guided thereby in the darknesses of the land and the sea; We have set out and detailed¹ the proofs² for people who know.

⁹⁸ And He it is that produced you from one soul, then a dwelling-place and a repository[...].¹ And We have set out and detailed² the proofs³ for people who understand.

⁹⁹ And He it is that sends down from the sky water; and We bring forth thereby the growth¹ of all things; and We bring forth from it greenery, bringing forth from it grain heaped up; and from the date-palm, from its spathes, bunches of dates within reach; and gardens of grapevines and olives and pomegranates, similar yet different. Look upon the fruit thereof when it bears fruit and it ripens: in that are proofs² for people who believe.