3 Their hearts trifling. And they — the wrongdoers — counsel in secret: He is nothing but a mortal like yourselves; will you then yield to enchantment while you see? |
4 He said: My Lord knows (every) utterance in the heaven and the earth, and He is the Hearer, the Knower. |
5 Nay, say they: Medleys of dreams! nay, he has forged it! nay, he is a poet! so let him bring to us a sign such as the former (prophets) were sent (with). |
6 Not a town believed before them which We destroyed: will they then believe? |
7 And We sent not before thee any but men to whom We sent revelation; so ask the followers of the Reminder if you know not. |
8 Nor did We give them bodies not eating food, nor did they abide. |
9 Then We made Our promise good to them; so We delivered them and whom We pleased, and We destroyed the extravagant. |
10 Certainly We have revealed to you a Book which will give you eminence. Do you not then understand? |
11 And how many a town which was iniquitous did We demolish, and We raised up after it another people! |
12 So when they felt Our might, lo! they began to flee from it. |
13 Flee not and return to the easy lives which you led, and to your dwellings, that you may be questioned. |
14 They said: O woe to us! Surely we were unjust. |
15 And this cry of theirs ceased not till We made them cut off, extinct. |
16 And We created not the heaven and the earth and what is between them for sport. |
17 Had We wished to take a pastime, We would have taken it from before Ourselves; by no means would We do (so). |
18 Nay, We hurl the Truth against falsehood, so it knocks out its brains, and lo! it vanishes. And woe to you for what you describe! |
19 And to Him belongs whoever is in the heavens and the earth. And those who are with Him are not too proud to serve Him, nor are they weary. |