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

¹ ḥā mīm¹

² The revelation¹ of the Writ² is from God, the Exalted in Might, the Wise.³

³ We created not the heavens and the earth and what is between them¹ but in truth² and for a stated term; but those who ignore warning,³ from that whereof they are warned, turn away.

⁴ Say thou: “Have you seen¹ to what you call² besides³ God? Show me what they have created of the earth. If⁴ they have a partnership⁵ in the heavens:⁶ bring me a Writ⁷ from before this, or some remnant of knowledge, if you be truthful.”⁸

⁵ And who is further astray than he who calls, besides¹ God, to such as will not respond to him until the Day of Resurrection? And they of their call are unaware;

⁶ And when mankind is gathered, they will be enemies to them and be deniers of their service.

⁷ And when Our proofs¹ are recited to them as clear signs, those who ignore warning² say of the truth³ when it has come to them: “This is obvious sorcery.”⁴

⁸ If¹ they say: “He has invented it,”² say thou: “If I have invented it, then you will not possess for me anything against God. He best knows what you say³ concerning it; sufficient is He as witness between me and you”; and He is the Forgiving, the Merciful.

⁹ Say thou: “I am no new thing¹ among the messengers, and I know not what will be done with me or with you. I follow only what is revealed² to me; and I am only a clear warner.”

¹⁰ Say thou: “Have you considered:¹ if it be from God and you deny it, and a witness bore witness among the children of Israel to the like thereof, and he² believed when you have waxed proud[...]?”³ God guides not the wrongdoing⁴ people.

¹¹ And those who ignore warning¹ say of those who heed warning:² “Had it been good, they would not have preceded us to it.” And when they are not guided by it, then they will say: “This is an ancient falsehood.”

¹² But before it was the Writ¹ of Moses a model² and a mercy; and this is a confirming Writ,³ in an Arabic tongue, that it might warn those who do wrong,⁴ and bring glad tidings to the doers of good:

¹³ Those who say: “Our Lord is God,” then keep to the path: — no fear will be upon them, nor will they grieve —

¹⁴ Those are the companions of the Garden, they abiding eternally therein as reward for what they did.

¹⁵ And We enjoined upon man: towards his parents, good conduct. His mother bore him with aversion, and brought him forth with aversion; and the bearing of him and the weaning of him is thirty months.¹ When² he has reached maturity, and reaches forty years,³ he says: “My Lord: direct Thou me to be grateful for Thy favour with which Thou hast favoured me and my parents, and to work righteousness pleasing to Thee; and make Thou me right in my progeny. I have turned to Thee repentant. And I am of those submitting.”⁴

¹⁶ Those are they from whom We will accept the best of what they did, and will overlook their evil deeds¹ — among the companions of the Garden: the promise of truth which they were promised!

¹⁷ And he who says to his parents: “Fie upon you!¹ Do you promise me that I will be brought forth, when generations have already passed away before me?” while they seek aid of God: — “Woe to thee! Believe thou; the promise of God is true,”² but he says: “This is only legends of the former peoples,” —

¹⁸ Those are they upon whom the word concerning the communities of the domini¹ and the servi² which passed away before them became binding;³ they were losers.

¹⁹ And for all are degrees for what they did, and that He might repay them in full for their deeds; and they will not be wronged.

²⁰ And the day those who ignore warning¹ are exposed to the Fire: “You received² your good things in the life of this world, and you took pleasure therein; so this day will you be rewarded with the punishment of humiliation because you waxed proud in the earth without right,³ and because you were perfidious.”⁴

²¹ And remember thou the brother of ʿĀd,¹ when he warned his people of² the wind-curved sandhills: — and warners have passed away before him and after him — “Serve not save God; I fear for you the punishment of a tremendous day,”

²² They said: “Hast thou come to us to delude us away from our gods? Then bring thou us what thou promisest us, if thou be of the truthful.”

²³ He said: “The knowledge is but with God, and I convey to you that wherewith I have been sent; but I see you are a people in ignorance.”

²⁴ Then when they saw it¹ as a wide cloud suddenly² approaching their valleys they said: “This is a cloud bringing us rain!” — “Nay,³ it is that which you sought to hasten: a wind wherein is a painful punishment,

²⁵ “Destroying everything by the command of its Lord.” And morning found them — there was nothing to be seen save their dwellings. Thus reward We the lawbreaking people.

²⁶ And We had established them in that wherein We have not established you, and We gave them hearing and sight and hearts; but their hearing and sight and hearts availed them nothing when they rejected the proofs¹ of God; and there surrounded them that whereat they mocked.

²⁷ And We have destroyed what surrounds you¹ of cities; and We expounded² the proofs,³ that they⁴ might return.

²⁸ Oh, that there had but¹ helped them those whom they had taken as gods, besides² God, as a means of approach!³ Nay,⁴ they strayed from them; and that was their falsehood, and what they invented.

²⁹ And when We turned towards thee a band¹ of the domini,² listening in to the Qur’an,³ and when they were in its presence they said: “Listen attentively”; then, when it was concluded, they turned back to their people, warning.

³⁰ They said: “O our people: we have heard a Writ¹ sent down after Moses, confirming what was before it,² guiding to the truth³ and to a straight road.

³¹ “O our people: respond to the caller to God, and believe in¹ Him; He will forgive you of your transgressions² and protect you from a painful punishment.”

³² And whoso responds not to the caller to God, he will not escape¹ in the earth, and he has no allies besides² Him; those are in manifest error.

³³ Have they not considered¹ that God — who created the heavens and the earth and was not wearied by their creation — is able to give life to the dead? Verily,² He is over all things powerful.

³⁴ And the day those who ignore warning¹ are exposed to the Fire: “Is then this not² the truth?”³ They will say: “Verily,⁴ by our Lord!” He will say: “Then taste the punishment for what you denied.”

³⁵ So be thou patient, as those of determination among the messengers were patient, and seek thou not to hasten for them.¹ The day they see what they are promised, it will be as though they had not tarried an hour of a day. Notification!² And will there be destroyed save the perfidious³ people?