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. |