(kinds of) animals, and the changing of the winds and the clouds made subservient between heaven and earth, there are surely signs for a people who understand. |
165 Yet there are some men who take for themselves objects of worship besides Allāh, whom they love as they should love Allāh. And those who believe are stronger in (their) love for Allāh. And O that the wrongdoers had seen, when they see the chastisement, that power is wholly Allāh’s, and that Allāh is Severe in chastising! |
166 When those who were followed renounce those who followed (them), and they see the chastisement and their ties are cut asunder. |
167 And those who followed will say: If we could but return, we would renounce them as they have renounced us. Thus will Allāh show them |
their deeds to be intense regret to them, and they will not escape from the Fire. |
168 O men, eat the lawful and good things from what is in the earth, and follow not the footsteps of the devil. Surely he is an open enemy to you. |
169 He enjoins on you only evil and indecency, and that you speak against Allāh what you know not. |
170 And when it is said to them, Follow what Allāh has revealed, they say: Nay, we follow that wherein we found our fathers. What! Even though their fathers had no sense at all, nor did they follow the right way. |
171 And the parable of those who disbelieve is as the parable of one who calls out to that which hears no more than a call and a cry. Deaf, dumb, blind, so they have no sense. |