ثُمَّ اسْتَوٰۤی اِلَی السَّمَآءِ وَ هِیَ دُخَانٌ فَقَالَ لَهَا وَ لِلْاَرْضِ ائْتِیَا طَوْعًا اَوْ كَرْهًا ؕ قَالَتَاۤ اَتَیْنَا طَآىِٕعِیْنَ۝۱۱

Then He turned to the heavens, and it was smoke. So He said to it and the earth: "Come with willing obedience or perforce." They said: "We come willingly."

فَقَضٰىهُنَّ سَبْعَ سَمٰوَاتٍ فِیْ یَوْمَیْنِ وَ اَوْحٰی فِیْ كُلِّ سَمَآءٍ اَمْرَهَا ؕ وَ زَیَّنَّا السَّمَآءَ الدُّنْیَا بِمَصَابِیْحَ ۖۗ وَ حِفْظًا ؕ ذٰلِكَ تَقْدِیْرُ الْعَزِیْزِ الْعَلِیْمِ۝۱۲

Then He created several skies in two spans, and ingrained in each sky its function, decking the nearest heaven with lamps, and guarded it. This has been determined by the mighty and all-knowing.

فَاِنْ اَعْرَضُوْا فَقُلْ اَنْذَرْتُكُمْ صٰعِقَةً مِّثْلَ صٰعِقَةِ عَادٍ وَّ ثَمُوْدَؕ۝۱۳

If even then they turn away, tell them: "I forewarn you of a terrible punishment like the thunderbolt that fell upon the ´Ad and Thamud."

اِذْ جَآءَتْهُمُ الرُّسُلُ مِنْۢ بَیْنِ اَیْدِیْهِمْ وَ مِنْ خَلْفِهِمْ اَلَّا تَعْبُدُوْۤا اِلَّا اللّٰهَ ؕ قَالُوْا لَوْ شَآءَ رَبُّنَا لَاَنْزَلَ مَلٰٓىِٕكَةً فَاِنَّا بِمَاۤ اُرْسِلْتُمْ بِهٖ كٰفِرُوْنَ۝۱۴

Their apostles came to them one after the other (saying): "Do not worship any one but God." They said: "If our Lord had pleased He would have sent the angels down. We reject what is sent with you."

فَاَمَّا عَادٌ فَاسْتَكْبَرُوْا فِی الْاَرْضِ بِغَیْرِ الْحَقِّ وَ قَالُوْا مَنْ اَشَدُّ مِنَّا قُوَّةً ؕ اَوَ لَمْ یَرَوْا اَنَّ اللّٰهَ الَّذِیْ خَلَقَهُمْ هُوَ اَشَدُّ مِنْهُمْ قُوَّةً ؕ وَ كَانُوْا بِاٰیٰتِنَا یَجْحَدُوْنَ۝۱۵

So those who were ´Ad turned insolent unjustly in the land, and said: "Who is stronger than us?" Did they not see that God who created them was greater far in power than they? Yet they refused to believe Our signs.

فَاَرْسَلْنَا عَلَیْهِمْ رِیْحًا صَرْصَرًا فِیْۤ اَیَّامٍ نَّحِسَاتٍ لِّنُذِیْقَهُمْ عَذَابَ الْخِزْیِ فِی الْحَیٰوةِ الدُّنْیَا ؕ وَ لَعَذَابُ الْاٰخِرَةِ اَخْزٰی وَ هُمْ لَا یُنْصَرُوْنَ۝۱۶

So We let loose on them a violent wind for several days of distress to make them taste a most disgraceful punishment here in this world, and far more shameful will be the punishment in the Hereafter, and there will be no succour for them.

وَ اَمَّا ثَمُوْدُ فَهَدَیْنٰهُمْ فَاسْتَحَبُّوا الْعَمٰی عَلَی الْهُدٰی فَاَخَذَتْهُمْ صٰعِقَةُ الْعَذَابِ الْهُوْنِ بِمَا كَانُوْا یَكْسِبُوْنَۚ۝۱۷

As for the (tribe of) Thamud, We tried to guide them, but they preferred blindness to guidance; then they were seized by the torment of a humiliating punishment as requital for their misdeeds;

وَ نَجَّیْنَا الَّذِیْنَ اٰمَنُوْا وَ كَانُوْا یَتَّقُوْنَ۠۝۱۸

But We saved those who believed and took heed for themselves.

وَ یَوْمَ یُحْشَرُ اَعْدَآءُ اللّٰهِ اِلَی النَّارِ فَهُمْ یُوْزَعُوْنَ۝۱۹

The day the enemies of God will be gathered at the Fire and the records of their deeds will be distributed,

حَتّٰۤی اِذَا مَا جَآءُوْهَا شَهِدَ عَلَیْهِمْ سَمْعُهُمْ وَ اَبْصَارُهُمْ وَ جُلُوْدُهُمْ بِمَا كَانُوْا یَعْمَلُوْنَ۝۲۰

So that when they reach it their ears and eyes and persons will testify to what they did.