Alif. Lam. Ra. These are verses of the Scripture and a plain Reading

It may be that those who disbelieve wish ardently that they were Muslims

Let them eat and enjoy life, and let (false) hope beguile them. They will come to know

And We destroyed no township but there was a known decree for it

No nation can outstrip its term nor can they lag behind

And they say: O thou unto whom the Reminder is revealed, lo! thou art indeed a madman

Why bringest thou not angels unto us, if thou art of the truthful

We send not down the angels save with the Fact, and in that case (the disbelievers) would not be tolerated

Lo! We, even We, reveal the Reminder, and lo! We verily are its Guardian

We verily sent (messengers) before thee among the factions of the men of old

And never came there unto them a messenger but they did mock him

Thus do We make it traverse the hearts of the guilty

They believe not therein, though the example of the men of old hath gone before

And even if We opened unto them a gate of heaven and they kept mounting through it

They would say: Our sight is wrong - nay, but we are folk bewitched