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

¹ By those scattering, dispersing,

² And those bearing a burden,

³ And those sailing¹ with ease,

⁴ And those distributing by command!¹

⁵ What you are promised is true,

⁶ And the Judgment¹ will befall.

⁷ By the sky full of pathways

⁸ You are in speech¹ differing!

⁹ Deluded away from it¹ is he who is deluded.

¹⁰ Damned be¹ those who guess:²

¹¹ Those who in a flood of ignorance¹ are heedless!

¹² They ask: “When is the Day of Judgment?”¹

¹³ The day they will be tried¹ by the Fire!

¹⁴ “Taste your means of denial:¹ this is what you sought to hasten!”

¹⁵ Those in prudent fear¹ will be among gardens and springs,

¹⁶ Taking what their Lord has given them; they were before that doers of good;

¹⁷ They slept¹ but little of the night,

¹⁸ And before the break of day¹ they would ask forgiveness,²

¹⁹ And in their wealth was a due¹ for the one who asked, and the one deprived.²

²⁰ And in the earth are proofs¹ for those who are certain,²

²¹ And in yourselves; do you then not¹ see!

²² And in the heaven is your provision — and what you are promised!

²³ Then by the Lord of Heaven and Earth, it¹ is as true² as that you are speaking!

²⁴ Has there come to thee the story¹ of the honoured guests of Abraham?

²⁵ When they entered upon him and said: “Peace!” he said: “Peace, people unknown!”¹

²⁶ And he turned aside to his family and brought a fatted calf,

²⁷ And he placed it near them; he said: “Will you not eat?”

²⁸ And he sensed fear from them.¹ They said: “Fear thou not!” And they gave him glad tidings of a learned lad.

²⁹ And his wife came forward, crying out, and struck her face, and said: “A barren old woman!”

³⁰ They said: “Thus said thy Lord; He is the Wise, the Knowing.”

³¹ He said: “Then what is your business, O emissaries?”

³² They said: “We have been sent to a people of lawbreakers,

³³ “That we might send upon them stones of clay,

³⁴ “Marked in the sight of thy Lord¹ for the committers of excess.”

³⁵ And We brought out whoso therein was of the believers,¹

³⁶ And We found not therein but one house of those submitting.¹

³⁷ And We left therein a proof¹ for those who fear the painful punishment.

³⁸ And in Moses:¹ when We sent him to Pharaoh² with a clear authority: —

³⁹ He turned away with his supporters,¹ saying: “A sorcerer,² or one possessed.”

⁴⁰ So We took him and his forces, and cast them into the sea;¹ and he was blameworthy.

⁴¹ And in ʿĀd:¹ when We sent upon them the barren wind: —

⁴² It left nothing it came upon save it made it as decayed ruins.

⁴³ And in Thamūd:¹ when it was said to them: “Enjoy yourselves for a time!”

⁴⁴ But they scorned the command of their Lord, and the thunderbolt seized them while they were looking on,

⁴⁵ And they were unable to rise up, nor could they help themselves.

⁴⁶ And the people of Noah before: they were a perfidious¹ people.

⁴⁷ (And the heaven — We built it with might; and We are wealthy!¹

⁴⁸ And the earth — We spread it out; how excellent are those who level!¹

⁴⁹ And of all things We created two kinds,¹ that you might take heed.