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

¹ alif lām mīm¹

² The¹ revelation² of the Writ about which there is no doubt,³ from the Lord of All Creation.

³ If¹ they say: “He has invented it,”² the truth is:³ it is the truth⁴ from thy Lord, that thou warn a people to whom no warner came before thee, that they might be guided.

⁴ God is He who created the heavens and the earth and what is between them¹ in six days,² then established Himself upon the Throne. You have not, besides³ Him, any ally or intercessor. Will you then not⁴ take heed!

⁵ He directs the matter from the heaven to the earth; then it rises to Him in a day the measure whereof is a thousand years of what you count.

⁶ That is the Knower of the Unseen and the Seen, the Exalted in Might, the Merciful,

⁷ Who made good everything He created, and began the creation of man from clay;

⁸ Then He made his progeny of an extraction of despised water;¹

⁹ Then He fashioned him, and breathed into him of His Spirit; and He made for you hearing and sight and hearts;¹ little are you grateful.

¹⁰ And they say: “When we are lost in the earth, will we be in a new creation?” The truth is,¹ they are of the meeting with their Lord deniers.

¹¹ Say thou: “There will take you the angel of death who has been given charge of you; then to your Lord will you be returned.”

¹² And if thou couldst see when the lawbreakers will hang their heads before their Lord: “Our Lord: we have seen and heard, so send Thou us back. We will work righteousness! We are those who are certain!”¹

¹³ And had We willed, We could have given every soul its guidance. But the word from Me is binding:¹ “I will fill Gehenna with the jinna² and mankind all together!”

¹⁴ “So taste! Because you forgot the meeting of this your day, We have forgotten you. And taste the punishment of eternity because of what you did!”

¹⁵ Only those believe in¹ Our proofs² who, when they are reminded thereof, fall down in submission;³ and they give glory⁴ with the praise of their Lord, and they wax not proud.

¹⁶ Their sides forsake their beds; they call to their Lord in fear and hope,¹ and of what We have provided them they spend.

¹⁷ And no soul knows what has been hidden for them as a comfort of the eyes as reward for what they did.

¹⁸ Is then he who¹ is a believer² like him who is perfidious?³ They are not equal.

¹⁹ As for those who heed warning¹ and do righteous deeds: for them are the Gardens of Shelter as a welcome for what they did.

²⁰ And as for those who are perfidious:¹ their shelter is the Fire. As often as they desire to come out therefrom, they are brought back into it; and it is said to them: “Taste the punishment of the Fire which you denied!”

²¹ And We will let them taste of the lower¹ punishment before the greater, that they might return.²

²² And who is more unjust than he who is reminded of the proofs¹ of his Lord, then turns away therefrom? We will take vengeance on the lawbreakers.

²³ And We gave Moses the Writ,¹ — so be thou not in doubt about his meeting² — and We appointed it³ as guidance for the children of Israel.

²⁴ And We appointed among them leaders guiding by Our command when they were patient and of Our proofs¹ were certain.²

²⁵ Thy Lord will decide between them on the Day of Resurrection concerning that wherein they differed.

²⁶ Does it not guide them, how many generations We destroyed before them among whose dwellings they walk? In that are proofs.¹ Will they then not² hear!

²⁷ Have they not considered¹ that We drive the water to the barren land, and bring forth therewith crops whereof their cattle and they themselves² eat? Will they then not³ see!

²⁸ And they say: “When is this decision,¹ if you be truthful?”²

²⁹ Say thou: “On the Day of Decision,¹ the faith of those who ignore warning² will not benefit them, nor will they be granted respite.”

³⁰ So turn thou away from them, and wait thou — they are waiting.