Chapter 15 Al-Ḥijr: The Rock

1 I, Allāh, am the Seer. These are the verses of the Book and (of) a Qur’ān that makes manifest.

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2 Often will those who disbelieve wish that they were Muslims.

3 Leave them to eat and enjoy themselves, and let (false) hope beguile them, for they will soon know.

4 And never did We destroy a town but it had a decree made known.

5 No people can hasten on their doom, nor can they postpone (it).

6 And they say: O thou to whom the Reminder is revealed, thou art indeed mad.

7 Why bringest thou not the angels to us, if thou art of the truthful?

8 We send not angels but with truth, and then they would not be respited.

9 Surely We have revealed the Reminder, and surely We are its Guardian.

10 And certainly We sent (messengers) before thee among the sects of yore.

11 And there never came a messenger to them but they mocked him.

12 Thus do We make it enter the hearts of the guilty —

13 They believe not in it; and the example of the ancients has gone before.

14 And even if We open to them a gate of heaven, and they keep on ascending into it,

15 They would say: Only our eyes have been covered over, rather we are an enchanted people.

16 And certainly We have made strongholds in the heaven, and We have made it fair-seeming to the beholders,