الٓرٰ ۫ تِلْكَ اٰیٰتُ الْكِتٰبِ وَ قُرْاٰنٍ مُّبِیْنٍ۝۱

ALIF LAM RA. These are the verses of the Book and the perspicuous oration.

رُبَمَا یَوَدُّ الَّذِیْنَ كَفَرُوْا لَوْ كَانُوْا مُسْلِمِیْنَ۝۲

The unbelievers would haply like to wish that they had submitted (and become Muslim).

ذَرْهُمْ یَاْكُلُوْا وَ یَتَمَتَّعُوْا وَ یُلْهِهِمُ الْاَمَلُ فَسَوْفَ یَعْلَمُوْنَ۝۳

Leave them to feast and revel, beguiled by hope; they will come to know soon.

وَ مَاۤ اَهْلَكْنَا مِنْ قَرْیَةٍ اِلَّا وَ لَهَا كِتَابٌ مَّعْلُوْمٌ۝۴

Not one habitation have We destroyed but at the time determined for it.

مَا تَسْبِقُ مِنْ اُمَّةٍ اَجَلَهَا وَ مَا یَسْتَاْخِرُوْنَ۝۵

No people can hasten or delay the term already fixed for them.

وَ قَالُوْا یٰۤاَیُّهَا الَّذِیْ نُزِّلَ عَلَیْهِ الذِّكْرُ اِنَّكَ لَمَجْنُوْنٌؕ۝۶

And yet they say: "You, to whom this Exposition has been sent are surely possessed of the Devil.

لَوْ مَا تَاْتِیْنَا بِالْمَلٰٓىِٕكَةِ اِنْ كُنْتَ مِنَ الصّٰدِقِیْنَ۝۷

If you are a man of truth, why can´t you bring the angels to us?"

مَا نُنَزِّلُ الْمَلٰٓىِٕكَةَ اِلَّا بِالْحَقِّ وَ مَا كَانُوْۤا اِذًا مُّنْظَرِیْنَ۝۸

But then We never send the angels down save with the purpose (of enforcing their doom), after which they will not be given more respite.

اِنَّا نَحْنُ نَزَّلْنَا الذِّكْرَ وَ اِنَّا لَهٗ لَحٰفِظُوْنَ۝۹

We have sent down this Exposition, and We will guard it.

وَ لَقَدْ اَرْسَلْنَا مِنْ قَبْلِكَ فِیْ شِیَعِ الْاَوَّلِیْنَ۝۱۰

We had also sent apostles to people of earlier persuasions.