اَوْ خَلْقًا مِّمَّا یَكْبُرُ فِیْ صُدُوْرِكُمْ ۚ فَسَیَقُوْلُوْنَ مَنْ یُّعِیْدُنَا ؕ قُلِ الَّذِیْ فَطَرَكُمْ اَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ ۚ فَسَیُنْغِضُوْنَ اِلَیْكَ رُءُوْسَهُمْ وَ یَقُوْلُوْنَ مَتٰی هُوَ ؕ قُلْ عَسٰۤی اَنْ یَّكُوْنَ قَرِیْبًا۝۵۱

Or some other created thing which may seem to you most difficult (to create)!" They will then say: "Who will revert us back?" Say: "He who originated you in the first place." They will shake their heads at you and say: "When will that be?" Say: "In the near future, perhaps,

یَوْمَ یَدْعُوْكُمْ فَتَسْتَجِیْبُوْنَ بِحَمْدِهٖ وَ تَظُنُّوْنَ اِنْ لَّبِثْتُمْ اِلَّا قَلِیْلًا۠۝۵۲

"On the day when He will call you, and you will answer with His praises and imagine you did not tarry but a while."

وَ قُلْ لِّعِبَادِیْ یَقُوْلُوا الَّتِیْ هِیَ اَحْسَنُ ؕ اِنَّ الشَّیْطٰنَ یَنْزَغُ بَیْنَهُمْ ؕ اِنَّ الشَّیْطٰنَ كَانَ لِلْاِنْسَانِ عَدُوًّا مُّبِیْنًا۝۵۳

Tell My creatures only to speak words that are good. Verily Satan sows dissensions: Satan is indeed the acknowledged enemy of mankind.

رَبُّكُمْ اَعْلَمُ بِكُمْ ؕ اِنْ یَّشَاْ یَرْحَمْكُمْ اَوْ اِنْ یَّشَاْ یُعَذِّبْكُمْ ؕ وَ مَاۤ اَرْسَلْنٰكَ عَلَیْهِمْ وَكِیْلًا۝۵۴

Your Lord knows you better: He may have mercy on you if He please, or punish you if He will. Yet We have not sent you as warden over them.

وَ رَبُّكَ اَعْلَمُ بِمَنْ فِی السَّمٰوٰتِ وَ الْاَرْضِ ؕ وَ لَقَدْ فَضَّلْنَا بَعْضَ النَّبِیّٖنَ عَلٰی بَعْضٍ وَّ اٰتَیْنَا دَاوٗدَ زَبُوْرًا۝۵۵

Your Lord knows whoever is in the heavens and the earth. We exalted some of the prophets over the others; and to David We gave the Book of Psalms.

قُلِ ادْعُوا الَّذِیْنَ زَعَمْتُمْ مِّنْ دُوْنِهٖ فَلَا یَمْلِكُوْنَ كَشْفَ الضُّرِّ عَنْكُمْ وَ لَا تَحْوِیْلًا۝۵۶

Say: "Call those whom you imagine to be gods besides Him; yet they have no power to relieve you of any distress or to avert it."

اُولٰٓىِٕكَ الَّذِیْنَ یَدْعُوْنَ یَبْتَغُوْنَ اِلٰی رَبِّهِمُ الْوَسِیْلَةَ اَیُّهُمْ اَقْرَبُ وَ یَرْجُوْنَ رَحْمَتَهٗ وَ یَخَافُوْنَ عَذَابَهٗ ؕ اِنَّ عَذَابَ رَبِّكَ كَانَ مَحْذُوْرًا۝۵۷

Those they invoke themselves seek the way to their Lord, (striving) which one of them shall be nearest (to Him); and hope for His grace, and dread His punishment. Indeed, the punishment of your Lord is to be feared!

وَ اِنْ مِّنْ قَرْیَةٍ اِلَّا نَحْنُ مُهْلِكُوْهَا قَبْلَ یَوْمِ الْقِیٰمَةِ اَوْ مُعَذِّبُوْهَا عَذَابًا شَدِیْدًا ؕ كَانَ ذٰلِكَ فِی الْكِتٰبِ مَسْطُوْرًا۝۵۸

There is not a habitation We shall not destroy before the Day of Resurrection, or not inflict severe punishment upon it. This is in accordance with the law (of God).

وَ مَا مَنَعَنَاۤ اَنْ نُّرْسِلَ بِالْاٰیٰتِ اِلَّاۤ اَنْ كَذَّبَ بِهَا الْاَوَّلُوْنَ ؕ وَ اٰتَیْنَا ثَمُوْدَ النَّاقَةَ مُبْصِرَةً فَظَلَمُوْا بِهَا ؕ وَ مَا نُرْسِلُ بِالْاٰیٰتِ اِلَّا تَخْوِیْفًا۝۵۹

Nothing could stop Us from sending signs except that the earlier people had rejected them as lies. We sent to Thamud the she-camel as a token to make it clear to them, but they treated her cruelly; and We send signs only to deter.

وَ اِذْ قُلْنَا لَكَ اِنَّ رَبَّكَ اَحَاطَ بِالنَّاسِ ؕ وَ مَا جَعَلْنَا الرُّءْیَا الَّتِیْۤ اَرَیْنٰكَ اِلَّا فِتْنَةً لِّلنَّاسِ وَ الشَّجَرَةَ الْمَلْعُوْنَةَ فِی الْقُرْاٰنِ ؕ وَ نُخَوِّفُهُمْ ۙ فَمَا یَزِیْدُهُمْ اِلَّا طُغْیَانًا كَبِیْرًا۠۝۶۰

When We said to you: "Verily your Lord circumscribes mankind," and showed you the vision and the accursed tree of the Qur´an, it was as a bone of contention for men. Thus do We (instil) fear in them; but they only transgress the more.