اِقْتَرَبَ لِلنَّاسِ حِسَابُهُمْ وَ هُمْ فِیْ غَفْلَةٍ مُّعْرِضُوْنَۚ۝۱

NEAR HAS COME the reckoning for men, but they turn away in remissness.

مَا یَاْتِیْهِمْ مِّنْ ذِكْرٍ مِّنْ رَّبِّهِمْ مُّحْدَثٍ اِلَّا اسْتَمَعُوْهُ وَ هُمْ یَلْعَبُوْنَۙ۝۲

Never does a new reminder come to them from their Lord but they listen to it with dalliance.

لَاهِیَةً قُلُوْبُهُمْ ؕ وَ اَسَرُّوا النَّجْوَی ۖۗ الَّذِیْنَ ظَلَمُوْا ۖۗ هَلْ هٰذَاۤ اِلَّا بَشَرٌ مِّثْلُكُمْ ۚ اَفَتَاْتُوْنَ السِّحْرَ وَ اَنْتُمْ تُبْصِرُوْنَ۝۳

Their minds are lost in frivolous pastimes; and the evil-doers discuss secretly: "Is he not but only a man like you? Then why are you taken in by magic seeingly?"

قٰلَ رَبِّیْ یَعْلَمُ الْقَوْلَ فِی السَّمَآءِ وَ الْاَرْضِ ؗ وَ هُوَ السَّمِیْعُ الْعَلِیْمُ۝۴

He said: "My Lord knows whatever is spoken in the heavens and the earth. He hears all and knows everything."

بَلْ قَالُوْۤا اَضْغَاثُ اَحْلَامٍۭ بَلِ افْتَرٰىهُ بَلْ هُوَ شَاعِرٌ ۖۚ فَلْیَاْتِنَا بِاٰیَةٍ كَمَاۤ اُرْسِلَ الْاَوَّلُوْنَ۝۵

Yet they say: "These are only confused dreams," or rather: "He has invented them;" or: "He is only a poet. Let him therefore bring a miracle to us as the earlier (apostles) were sent with."

مَاۤ اٰمَنَتْ قَبْلَهُمْ مِّنْ قَرْیَةٍ اَهْلَكْنٰهَا ۚ اَفَهُمْ یُؤْمِنُوْنَ۝۶

Not one habitation that We destroyed before them had believed. So how can they believe?

وَ مَاۤ اَرْسَلْنَا قَبْلَكَ اِلَّا رِجَالًا نُّوْحِیْۤ اِلَیْهِمْ فَسْـَٔلُوْۤا اَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ اِنْ كُنْتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُوْنَ۝۷

Never did We send a message before you but through a man, whom We inspired. If you do not know, then ask the keepers of the oracles of God.

وَ مَا جَعَلْنٰهُمْ جَسَدًا لَّا یَاْكُلُوْنَ الطَّعَامَ وَ مَا كَانُوْا خٰلِدِیْنَ۝۸

We did not make their bodies immune to hunger, nor were they immortal.

ثُمَّ صَدَقْنٰهُمُ الْوَعْدَ فَاَنْجَیْنٰهُمْ وَ مَنْ نَّشَآءُ وَ اَهْلَكْنَا الْمُسْرِفِیْنَ۝۹

Then We made Our promise good to them and delivered whomsoever We pleased, and destroyed the transgressors.

لَقَدْ اَنْزَلْنَاۤ اِلَیْكُمْ كِتٰبًا فِیْهِ ذِكْرُكُمْ ؕ اَفَلَا تَعْقِلُوْنَ۠۝۱۰

We have sent down to you a Book which has a reminder for you. Do you not understand?