5 Shall We then turn away the Reminder from you altogether because you are a prodigal people? |
6 And how many a prophet did We send among the ancients! |
7 And no prophet came to them but they mocked him. |
8 Then We destroyed those stronger than these in prowess, and the example of the ancients has gone before. |
9 And if thou ask them, Who created the heavens and the earth? they would say: The Mighty, the Knowing One, has created them, |
10 Who made the earth a resting-place for you, and made in it ways for you that you might go aright. |
11 And Who sends down water from the cloud according to a measure, then We raise to life thereby a dead land; even so will you be brought forth. |
12 And Who created pairs of all things, and made for you ships and cattle on which you ride, |
13 That you may sit firm on their backs, then remember the favour of your Lord, when you are firmly seated thereon, and say: Glory be to Him Who made this subservient to us and we were not able to do it, |
14 And surely to our Lord we must return. |
15 And they assign to Him a part of His servants. Man, to be sure, is clearly ungrateful. |
16 Or has He taken daughters to Himself of what He creates and chosen you to have sons? |
17 And when one of them is given news of that of which he sets up a likeness for the Beneficent, his face becomes black and he is full of rage. |
18 Is one decked with ornaments and unable to make plain speech in disputes (a partner with God)? |
19 And they make the angels, who are the servants of the Beneficent, females. Did they witness their creation? Their evidence will be recorded and they will be questioned. |
20 And they say: If the Beneficent had pleased, we should not have worshipped them. They have no knowledge of this; they only lie. |