In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.


 1. Blessed is He in Whose hand is the kingdom, and He has 
 power over all things,

 2. Who created death and life that He may try you-- which of 
 you is best in deeds; and He is the Mighty, the Forgiving, 

 3. Who created the seven heavens one above another; you see 
 no incongruity in the creation of the Beneficent God; then 
 look again, can you see any disorder?

 4. Then turn back the eye again and again; your look shall 
 '~ come back to you confused while it is fatigued.

 5. And certainly We have adorned this lower heaven with ( 
 lamps and We have made these missiles for the Shaitans, and 
 We have prepared for them the chastisement of burning.

 6. And for those who disbelieve in their Lord is the 
 punishment of hell, and evil is the resort.

 7. When they shall be cast therein, they shall hear a loud 
 moaning of it as it heaves,

 8. Almost bursting for fury. Whenever a group is cast into 
 it, its keeper shall ask them: Did there not come to you a 
 warner?

 9. They shall say: Yea! indeed there came to us a warner, 
 but we rejected (him) and said: Allah has not revealed 
 anything, you are only in a great error.

 10. And they shall say: Had we but listened or pondered, we 
 should not have been among the inmates of the burning fire.

 11. So they shall acknowledge their sins, but far will be 
 (forgiveness) from the inmates of the burning fire.

 12. (As for) those who fear their Lord in secret, they shall 
 surely have forgiveness and a great reward.

 13. And conceal your word or manifest it; surely He is 
 Cognizant of what is in the hearts.

 14. Does He not know, Who created? And He is the Knower of 
 the subtleties, the Aware.

 15. He it is Who made the earth smooth for you, therefore go 
 about in the spacious sides thereof, and eat of His 
 sustenance, and to Him is the return after death.

 16. Are you secure of those in the heaven that He should not 
 make the earth to swallow you up? Then lo! it shall be in a 
 state of commotion.

 17. Or are you secure of those in the heaven that He should 
 not send down upon you a punishment? Then shall you know how 
 was My warning.

 18. And certainly those before them rejected (the truth), 
 then how was My disapproval.

 19. Have they not seen the birds above them expanding (their 
 wings) and contracting (them)? What is it that withholds 
 them save the Beneficent God? Surely He sees everything.

 20. Or who is it that will be a host for you to assist you 
 besides the Beneficent God? The unbelievers are only in 
 deception.

 21. Or who is it that will give you sustenance if He should 
 withhold His sustenance? Nay! they persist in disdain and 
 aversion.

 22. What! is he who goes prone upon his face better guided 
 or he who walks upright upon a straight path?

 23. Say: He it is Who brought you into being and made for 
 you the ears and the eyes and the hearts: little is it that 
 you give thanks.

 24. Say: He it is Who multiplied you in the earth and to Him 
 you shall be gathered.

 25. And they say: When shall this threat be (executed) if 
 you are truthful?

 26. Say: The knowledge (thereof is only with Allah and I am 
 only a plain warner.=

 27. But when they shall see it nigh, the faces of those who 
 disbelieve shall be sorry, and it shall be said; This is 
 that which you used to call for.

 28. Say: Have you considered if Allah should destroy me and 
 those with me-- rather He will have mercy on us; yet who will 
 protect the unbelievers from a painful punishment?

 29. Say: He is the Beneficent God, we believe in Him and on 
 Him do we rely, so you shall come to know who it is that is 
 in clear error.

 30. Say: Have you considered if your water should go down, 
 who is it then that will bring you flowing water?