9 Say: Do you indeed disbelieve in Him Who created the earth in two days, and do you set up equals with Him? That is the Lord of the worlds. |
10 And He made in it mountains above its surface, and He blessed therein and ordained therein its foods, in four days; alike for (all) seekers. |
11 Then He directed Himself to the heaven and it was a vapour, so He said to it and to the earth: Come both, willingly or unwillingly. They both said: We come willingly. |
12 So He ordained them seven heavens in two days, and revealed in every heaven its affair. And We adorned the lower heaven with lights, and (made it) to guard. That is the decree of the Mighty, the Knowing. |
13 But if they turn away, then say: I warn you of a scourge like the scourge of ‘Ād and Thāmūd. |
14 When messengers came to them from before them and behind them, saying, Serve nothing but Allāh, they said: If our Lord had pleased, He would have sent down angels. So we are disbelievers in that with which you are sent. |
15 Then as to ‘Ād, they were unjustly proud in the land, and said: Who is mightier than we in power? See they not that Allāh Who created them is mightier than they in power? And they denied Our messages. |
16 So We sent on them a furious wind in unlucky days that We might make them taste the chastisement of abasement in this world’s life. And the chastisement of the Hereafter is truly more abasing, and they will not be helped. |
17 And as for Thāmūd, We showed them the right way, but they preferred blindness to guidance, so the scourge of an abasing chastisement overtook them for what they had earned. |
18 And We delivered those who believed and kept their duty. |
19 And the day when the enemies of Allāh are gathered to the Fire, they will be formed into groups. |
20 Until, when they come to it, their ears and their eyes and their skins will bear witness against them as to what they did. |