Chapter 50 Qāf

1 Almighty (God)! By the glorious Qur’ān!

2 Nay, they wonder that a warner has come to them from among themselves; so the disbelievers say: This is a wonderful thing!

3 When we die and become dust — that is a far return.

4 We know indeed what the earth diminishes of them and with Us is a book that preserves.

5 Nay, they reject the Truth when it comes to them, so they are in a state of confusion.

6 Do they not look at the sky above them? — how We have made it and adorned it and it has no gaps.

7 And the earth, We have spread it out, and cast therein mountains, and We have made to grow therein of every beautiful kind —

8 To give sight and as a reminder to every servant who turns (to Allāh).

9 And We send down from the clouds water abounding in good, then We cause to grow thereby gardens and the grain that is reaped,

10 And the tall palm-trees having flower spikes piled one above another —

11 A sustenance for the servants, and We give life thereby to a dead land. Thus is the rising.

12 Before them the people of Noah rejected (the Truth) and (so did) the dwellers of al-Rass and Thamūd

13 And ‘Ād and Pharaoh and Lot’s brethren,

14 And the dwellers of the grove and the people of Tubba‘. They all rejected the messengers, so My threat came to pass.

15 Were We then fatigued with the first creation? Yet they are in doubt about a new creation.

16 And certainly We created man, and We know what his mind suggests to him — and We are nearer to him than his life-vein.