In the name of God, the Almighty,¹ the Merciful.

¹ Blessed be He who has sent down the Division¹ upon His servant, that he might be a warner to all mankind,

² He to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth, and has not taken a son or had a partner¹ in dominion, but created everything, then ordained it entirely.²

³ And they have taken, besides¹ Him, gods which create nothing, but are created, and possess for themselves neither harm nor benefit; and they possess neither death nor life nor resurrection.

⁴ And those who ignore warning¹ say: “This is only a falsehood; he invented it, and other people assisted him in it.” And they have brought injustice and falsehood.

⁵ And they say: “Legends of the former peoples he has written,¹ and they are dictated to him morning and evening.”

⁶ Say thou: “He sent it down who knows the secret in the heavens and the earth; He is forgiving and merciful.”

⁷ And they say: “What is this messenger that eats food and walks in the markets? Oh, that an angel were but¹ sent down to him to be a warner with him!

⁸ “Or a treasure were but sent to him! Or there were for him but a garden from which he ate!”¹ And the wrongdoers² say: “You follow only a man taken by sorcery.”³

⁹ See thou how they strike similitudes for thee, and go astray, and cannot find a path.

¹⁰ Blessed be He who, if He wills, will make for thee better than that, — gardens beneath which rivers flow — and will make for thee palaces!

¹¹ The truth is,¹ they have denied the Hour; and We have prepared for him who denies the Hour an inferno.²

¹² When it sees them from a place far away, they will hear the fury and the roaring¹ thereof.

¹³ And when they are cast therefrom¹ into a narrow place bound together, they will call thereupon for destruction.

¹⁴ “Call not this day for one destruction, but call for many destructions!”¹

¹⁵ Say thou: “Is that better, or the Garden of Eternity which is promised to those of prudent fear?”¹ It will be for them a reward and a journey’s end.

¹⁶ They have therein all that they desire, they abiding eternally; it is upon thy Lord a promise requested.¹

¹⁷ And the day He gathers them and what they serve, besides¹ God, and says: “Was it you who led astray these My servants, or did they stray from the path?”

¹⁸ They will say: “Glory¹ be to Thee! It behoved us not to take, besides² Thee, any allies! But Thou didst give them and their fathers enjoyment until they forgot the remembrance³ and became a people ruined.”

¹⁹ “They¹ have denied² you³ for what you say,” — and you are able neither to avert⁴ nor to find help;⁵ and whoso does wrong among you, We will let him taste a great punishment.

²⁰ And We sent not before thee any emissaries, but that they ate food and walked in the markets. And We made some of you a means of denial¹ for others. Will you be patient? And thy Lord is seeing.

²¹ And those who look not for a meeting with Us say: “Oh, that the angels were but¹ sent down upon us, or we but saw our Lord!” They have waxed proud concerning themselves, and scornful with great scorn.

²² The day they see the angels: — no glad tidings, that day, for the lawbreakers; and they will say: “A complete partition!”¹

²³ And We will come to what they did of deeds, and make it scattered dust.

²⁴ The companions of the Garden, that day, are better in dwelling-place and better in resting-place.

²⁵ And the day the sky is rent asunder with the clouds, and the angels are sent down in successive descent,

²⁶ True¹ dominion, that day, belongs to the Almighty;² and it will be a difficult day for the false claimers of guidance.³

²⁷ And the day the wrongdoer¹ will bite his hands, he will say: “Would that I had taken with the Messenger a path!

²⁸ “Woe is me! Would that I had not taken such-and-such for a friend!

²⁹ “He led me astray from the remembrance¹ after it reached me.” And the satan² is to man a traitor.

³⁰ And the Messenger will say: “O my Lord: my people took this Qur’an¹ as a thing abandoned.”²

³¹ And thus We appointed for every prophet an enemy¹ from among the lawbreakers; but thy Lord suffices as a guide and a helper.

³² And those who ignore warning¹ say: “Oh, that the Qur’an² were but³ sent down upon him all at once!” Thus — that We might strengthen thy heart thereby; and We have recited it distinctly.⁴

³³ And they bring thee not a similitude save We bring thee the truth¹ and better in explanation.

³⁴ Those who are gathered on their faces into Gehenna: those are worse in position, and further astray in the path.

³⁵ And We gave Moses the Writ,¹ and appointed with him his brother Aaron as an assistant.

³⁶ And We said: “Go¹ to the people who have denied Our proofs”;² then We annihilated them completely.³

³⁷ And the people of Noah: when they denied the messengers, We drowned them, and made of them for mankind a proof;¹ and We have prepared for the wrongdoers² a painful punishment.

³⁸ And ʿĀd, and Thamūd, and the companions of Al-Rass,¹ and many generations in-between,²

³⁹ And for each We struck similitudes; and each We destroyed utterly.¹

⁴⁰ And they have passed by the city whereon rained a rain of evil;¹ so did they not see it? The truth is,² they expect not a resurrection.

⁴¹ And when they see thee, they only take thee in mockery: “Is this he whom God sent as messenger?

⁴² “He had almost led us astray from our gods, were we not steadfast towards them.” And they will know, when they see the punishment, who is further astray in the path.

⁴³ Hast thou seen¹ him who has taken as his god his vain desire? Wouldst thou then be a guardian over him?

⁴⁴ If¹ thou thinkest that most of them hear or reason² — they are only as the cattle; nay,³ they are further astray in the path.

⁴⁵ Hast thou not considered¹ thy Lord, how He spread the shadow? And had He willed, He would have made it still. Then We made the sun its guide;²

⁴⁶ Then We took it to Ourselves in an easy taking.¹

⁴⁷ And He it is that appointed for you the night as a covering, and sleep as a rest, and appointed the day as a resurrection.

⁴⁸ And He it is that sends the winds as glad tidings at the time¹ of His mercy. And We send down from the sky pure water,

⁴⁹ That We might give life thereby to a dead land, and give it as drink to many of what We have created of cattle and men.