35 Every soul must taste of death. And We test you by evil and good by way of trial. And to Us you are returned. |
36 And when those who disbelieve see thee, they treat thee not but with mockery: Is this he who speaks of your gods? And they deny when the Beneficent God is mentioned. |
37 Man is created of haste. Soon will I show you My signs, so ask Me not to hasten them. |
38 And they say: When will this threat come to pass, if you are truthful? |
39 If those who disbelieve but knew the time when they will not be able to ward off the fire from their faces, nor from their backs, and they will not be helped! |
40 Nay, it will come to them all of a sudden and confound them, so they will not have the power to avert it, nor will they be respited. |
41 And messengers before thee were indeed mocked, so there befell those of them who scoffed, that whereat they scoffed. |
42 Say: Who guards you by night and by day from the Beneficent? Nay, they turn away at the mention of their Lord. |
43 Or, have they gods who can defend them against Us? They cannot help themselves, nor can they be defended from Us. |
44 Nay, We gave provision to these and their fathers, until life was prolonged to them. See they not then that We are visiting the land, curtailing it of its sides? Can they then prevail? |
45 Say: I warn you only by revelation; and the deaf hear not the call when they are warned. |
46 And if a blast of the chastisement of thy Lord were to touch them, they would say: O woe to us! Surely we were unjust. |
47 And We will set up a just balance on the day of Resurrection, so no soul will be wronged in the least. And if there be the weight of a grain of mustard seed, We will bring it. And Sufficient are We to take account. |
48 And certainly We gave Moses and Aaron the criterion and a light and a reminder for those who keep from evil, |