⁵⁰ And if they respond not to thee, know thou that they but follow their vain desires.¹ And who is further astray than he who follows his vain desire, without guidance from God? God guides not the wrongdoing² people.

⁵¹ And We have caused the word¹ to reach them, that they might take heed.

⁵² Those to whom We¹ gave the Writ² before it, they believe in³ it,

⁵³ And when it is recited to them, they say: “We believe in¹ it. It is the truth² from our Lord; before it were we submitting.”³

⁵⁴ Those will be given their reward twice over because they were patient. And they avert evil¹ with good, and of what We have provided them they spend;

⁵⁵ And when they hear vain speech, they turn away from it and say: “We have our works, and you have your works. Peace be upon you! We seek not the ignorant.”¹

⁵⁶ Thou guidest not whom thou likest; but God guides whom He wills.¹ And He best knows the guided.

⁵⁷ And they say: “If we follow the guidance with thee, we will be swept from our land.”¹ Have We not established for them a sanctuary secure² whereto are collected the fruits of all things as a provision from Us? But most of them know not.

⁵⁸ And how many a city We destroyed that was insolent in its livelihood; and those¹ are their dwellings: they have not been inhabited after them save a little. And We are the inheritors.

⁵⁹ And never would thy Lord destroy the cities until He has raised up in their principal city¹ a messenger reciting to them Our proofs.² And never would We destroy the cities save when the people thereof were wrongdoers.³

⁶⁰ And what you have been given of anything is the enjoyment of the life of this world and its ornament; and what is with God is better and more enduring. Will you then not¹ use reason!

⁶¹ Is then he whom¹ We have promised a fair promise which he will meet like him to whom We gave the enjoyment of the life of this world, then on the Day of Resurrection is among those summoned?

⁶² And the day He calls them, then will He say: “Where are My partners¹ whom you claimed?”

⁶³ Those upon whom the word has become binding¹ will say: “Our Lord: these are they whom we caused to err. We caused them to err even as we ourselves did err. We declare our innocence² to Thee; it was not us that they served.”³

⁶⁴ And it will be said: “Call your partners!”¹ And they will call them, but they will not answer them; and they will see the punishment — had they but been guided!

⁶⁵ And the day He calls them, then will He say: “What answer gave you to the emissaries?”

⁶⁶ Then darkened¹ for them will be the reports that day, and they will not ask one another.

⁶⁷ And as for him who repents, and believes, and works righteousness, then it may be that he will be among the successful.

⁶⁸ And thy Lord creates what He wills, and He chooses; not for them is the choice.¹ Glory² be to God! And exalted is He above that to which they ascribe a partnership!³

⁶⁹ And thy Lord knows what their breasts conceal and what they make known.

⁷⁰ And He is God; there is no god save He.¹ His is the praise in the former and the latter;² and His is the judgment; and to Him will you be returned.

⁷¹ Say thou: “Have you considered:¹ if God should make night unceasing over you until the Day of Resurrection, what god besides God will bring you illumination? Will you then not² hear!”

⁷² Say thou: “Have you considered:¹ if God should make day unceasing over you until the Day of Resurrection, what god besides God will bring you night wherein you will rest? Will you then not² see!”

⁷³ And of His mercy has He made for you the night and the day, that you might rest therein and seek of His bounty; and that you might be grateful.

⁷⁴ And the day He calls them, He will say: “Where are My partners¹ whom you claimed?”

⁷⁵ And We will take out from every community a witness and say: “Bring your evidence!” Then will they know that the truth¹ belongs to God, and strayed from them will be what they invented.

⁷⁶ Qārūn¹ was of the people of Moses, but he oppressed them. And We had given him of treasures that whereof the keys weighed down a company of men endowed with strength. When his people said to him: “Exult thou not — God loves not the exultant² —

⁷⁷ “But seek thou, in what God has given thee, the abode of the Hereafter; and forget thou not thy portion in the World; and do thou good, as God has done good to thee; and seek thou not corruption in the land; God loves not the workers of corruption,”

⁷⁸ He said: “I have been given it only because of knowledge I have,”¹ — knew he not that God had destroyed before him generations stronger than him in power, and greater in accumulation? — “and the lawbreakers will not be questioned² about their transgressions!”³

⁷⁹ So went he forth to his people in his finery. Those who sought the life of this world said: “Would that we had the like of what has been given to Qārūn!¹ He is one of great fortune!”

⁸⁰ But those given knowledge said: “Woe to you! The reward of God is better for him who believes and works righteousness”; and none is granted it save the patient.¹

⁸¹ (Then We caused the earth to swallow him and his abode. And there was for him no band to help him besides¹ God; and he was not of those who help themselves.

⁸² And morning found those who had desired his place the day before, saying: “Oh, how God expands and straitens the provision for whom He wills of His servants! Had God not been gracious to us, He would have caused it to swallow us. And oh, how the false claimers of guidance¹ do not succeed!”)

⁸³ That¹ is the abode of the Hereafter We make for those who seek neither exaltedness nor corruption in the land. And the final outcome is for those of prudent fear.²

⁸⁴ Whoso brings a good deed:¹ he will have better than it; and whoso brings evil:² those who did evil deeds³ will not be rewarded save for what they did.

⁸⁵ He who made the Qur’an¹ incumbent upon thee will return thee to a destination. Say thou: “My Lord best knows who brings guidance and who is in manifest error.”

⁸⁶ And thou didst not expect that the Writ¹ would be cast unto² thee;[...]³ only as a mercy from thy Lord, so be thou not a helper⁴ to the false claimers of guidance.⁵

⁸⁷ And let them not turn thee away from¹ the proofs² of God after they have been sent down to thee; and invite thou to thy Lord, and be thou not of the idolaters.³

⁸⁸ And call thou not with God to another god; there is no god save He.¹ Everything will perish save His face;² His is the Judgment; and to Him will you be returned.