No nation can outstrip its term, nor yet postpone it

Then We sent our messengers one after another. Whenever its messenger came unto a nation they denied him; so We caused them to follow one another (to disaster) and We made them bywords. A far removal for folk who believe not

Then We sent Moses and his brother Aaron with Our tokens and a clear warrant

Unto Pharaoh and his chiefs, but they scorned (them) and they were despotic folk

And they said: Shall we put faith in two mortals like ourselves, and whose folk are servile unto us

So they denied them, and became of those who were destroyed

And We verily gave Moses the Scripture, that haply they might go aright

And We made the son of Mary and his mother a portent, and We gave them refuge on a height, a place of flocks and watersprings

O ye messengers! Eat of the good things, and do right. Lo! I am Aware of what ye do

And lo! this your religion is one religion and I am your Lord, so keep your duty unto Me

But they (mankind) have broken their religion among them into sects, each group rejoicing in its tenets

So leave them in their error till a time

Think they that in the wealth and sons wherewith We provide them

We hasten unto them with good things? Nay, but they perceive not

Lo! those who go in awe for fear of their Lord

And those who believe in the revelations of their Lord

And those who ascribe not partners unto their Lord