17 Or our fathers of yore?

18 Say: Yea, and you will be humiliated.

19 So it will be but one cry, when lo! they will see.

20 And they will say: O woe to us! This is the day of Requital.

21 This is the day of Judgment, which you called a lie.

22 Gather together those who did wrong and their associates, and what they worshipped

23 Besides Allāh, then lead them to the way to hell.

24 And stop them, for they shall be questioned:

25 What is the matter with you that you help not one another?

26 Nay, on that day they will be submissive.

27 And some of them will turn to others mutually questioning —

28 Saying: Surely you used to come to us from the right side.

29 They will say: Nay, you (yourselves) were not believers.

30 And we had no authority over you, but you were an inordinate people.

31 So the word of our Lord has proved true against us: we shall surely taste.

32 We led you astray, for we ourselves were erring.

33 So, that day they will be sharers in the chastisement.

34 Thus do We deal with the guilty.

35 They indeed were arrogant, when it was said to them: There is no god but Allāh;

36 And said: Shall we give up our gods for a mad poet?

37 Nay, he has brought the Truth and verifies the messengers.

38 Surely you will taste the painful chastisement.

39 And you are requited naught but for what you did —

40 Save the servants of Allāh, the purified ones.

41 For them is a known sustenance:

42 Fruits. And they are honoured,