and evil are upon the disbelievers,

28 Whom the angels cause to die, while they are unjust to themselves. Then would they offer submission: We did not do any evil. Nay! Surely Allāh knows what you did.

29 So enter the gates of hell, to abide therein. Evil indeed is the dwelling- place of the proud.

30 And it is said to those who guard against evil: What has your Lord revealed? They say, Good. For those who do good in this world is good. And certainly the abode of the Hereafter is better. And excellent indeed is the abode of those who keep their duty —

31 Gardens of perpetuity which they enter, wherein flow rivers: they have therein what they please. Thus does Allāh reward those who keep their duty,

32 Whom the angels cause to die in purity, saying: Peace be to you! enter the Garden for what you did.

33 Await they aught but that the angels should come to them or that thy Lord’s command should come to pass. Thus did those before them. And Allāh wronged them not, but they wronged themselves.

34 So the evil of what they did afflicted them, and that which they mocked encompassed them.

35 And the idolaters say: If Allāh pleased we would not have served aught but Him, (neither) we nor our fathers, nor would we have prohibited aught without (order from) Him. Thus did those before them. But have the messengers any duty except a plain delivery (of the message)?

36 And certainly We raised in every nation a messenger, saying: Serve Allāh and shun the devil. Then of them was he whom Allāh guided, and of them was he whose remaining in error was justly due. So travel in the land, then see what was the end of the rejectors.

37 If thou desirest their guidance, yet Allāh will not guide him who leads astray, nor have they any helpers.

38 And they swear by Allāh their most energetic oaths: Allāh will not raise up him who dies. Yea! it is a promise binding on Him, quite true, but most people know not: