وَ كَمْ قَصَمْنَا مِنْ قَرْیَةٍ كَانَتْ ظَالِمَةً وَّ اَنْشَاْنَا بَعْدَهَا قَوْمًا اٰخَرِیْنَ۝۱۱

How many habitations that were sinful have We demolished utterly, and raised other people after them.

فَلَمَّاۤ اَحَسُّوْا بَاْسَنَاۤ اِذَا هُمْ مِّنْهَا یَرْكُضُوْنَؕ۝۱۲

Whensoever they sensed Our punishment they fled from them.

لَا تَرْكُضُوْا وَ ارْجِعُوْۤا اِلٰی مَاۤ اُتْرِفْتُمْ فِیْهِ وَ مَسٰكِنِكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُسْـَٔلُوْنَ۝۱۳

"Do not flee; go back to your halls of pleasure and your habitations, so that you may be interrogated."

قَالُوْا یٰوَیْلَنَاۤ اِنَّا كُنَّا ظٰلِمِیْنَ۝۱۴

"Woe, alas," they said, "we were really sinful."

فَمَا زَالَتْ تِّلْكَ دَعْوٰىهُمْ حَتّٰی جَعَلْنٰهُمْ حَصِیْدًا خٰمِدِیْنَ۝۱۵

And this remained their lament till We mowed them down and made them extinct.

وَ مَا خَلَقْنَا السَّمَآءَ وَ الْاَرْضَ وَ مَا بَیْنَهُمَا لٰعِبِیْنَ۝۱۶

We have not created the heavens and the earth, and all that lies between them, out of fun.

لَوْ اَرَدْنَاۤ اَنْ نَّتَّخِذَ لَهْوًا لَّاتَّخَذْنٰهُ مِنْ لَّدُنَّاۤ ۖۗ اِنْ كُنَّا فٰعِلِیْنَ۝۱۷

If We had pleased to make a plaything We could have made it Ourself, if We had cared to do so.

بَلْ نَقْذِفُ بِالْحَقِّ عَلَی الْبَاطِلِ فَیَدْمَغُهٗ فَاِذَا هُوَ زَاهِقٌ ؕ وَ لَكُمُ الْوَیْلُ مِمَّا تَصِفُوْنَ۝۱۸

In fact We strike the truth against the false, which shatters it, and it disappears. Woe to you for what you attribute (to Him)!

وَ لَهٗ مَنْ فِی السَّمٰوٰتِ وَ الْاَرْضِ ؕ وَ مَنْ عِنْدَهٗ لَا یَسْتَكْبِرُوْنَ عَنْ عِبَادَتِهٖ وَ لَا یَسْتَحْسِرُوْنَۚ۝۱۹

Whosoever is in the heavens and the earth belongs to Him; and those who are near Him do not disdain to worship Him or weary (of His service),

یُسَبِّحُوْنَ الَّیْلَ وَ النَّهَارَ لَا یَفْتُرُوْنَ۝۲۰

Nor cease to endeavour praising Him night and day.