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