them and their fathers to enjoy until they forgot the Reminder, and they became a lost people. |
19 So they will give you the lie in what you say, then you can neither ward off (evil), nor (obtain) help. And whoever among you does wrong, We shall make him taste a great chastisement. |
20 And We did not send before thee any messengers but they surely ate food and went about in the markets. And We make some of you a trial for others. Will you bear patiently? And thy Lord is ever Seeing. |
21 And those who look not for meeting with Us, say: Why have not angels been sent down to us, or (why) do we not see our Lord? Indeed they are too proud of themselves and revolt in great revolt. |
22 On the day when they will see the angels, there will be no good news for the guilty, and they will say: Let there be a strong barrier! |
23 And We shall turn to the work they have done, so We shall render it as scattered motes. |
24 The owners of the Garden will on that day be in a better abiding-place and a fairer resting-place. |
25 And on the day when the heaven bursts asunder with clouds, and the angels are sent down, as they are sent. |
26 The kingdom on that day rightly belongs to the Beneficent, and it will be a hard day for the disbelievers. |
27 And on the day when the wrongdoer will bite his hands, saying: Would that I had taken a way with the Messenger! |
28 O woe is me! would that I had not taken such a one for a friend! |
29 Certainly he led me astray from the Reminder after it had come to me. And the devil ever deserts man. |
30 And the Messenger will say: My Lord, surely my people treat this Qur’ān as a forsaken thing. |
31 And thus have We made for every prophet an enemy from among the guilty, and sufficient is thy Lord as a Guide and a Helper. |