And keep your duty unto Him Who created you and the generations of the men of old

They said: Thou art but one of the bewitched

Thou art but a mortal like us, and lo! we deem thee of the liars

Then make fragments of the heaven fall upon us, if thou art of the truthful

He said: My Lord is Best Aware of what ye do

But they denied him, so there came on them the retribution of the day of gloom. Lo! it was the retribution of an awful day

Lo! herein is indeed a portent; yet most of them are not believers

And lo! thy Lord! He is indeed the Mighty, the Merciful

And lo! it is a revelation of the Lord of the Worlds

Which the True Spirit hath brought down

Upon thy heart, that thou mayst be (one) of the warners

In plain Arabic speech

And lo! it is in the Scriptures of the men of old

Is it not a token for them that the doctors of the Children of Israel know it

And if We had revealed it unto one of any other nation than the Arabs

And he had read it unto them, they would not have believed in it

Thus do We make it traverse the hearts of the guilty

They will not believe in it till they behold the painful doom

So that it will come upon them suddenly, when they perceive not

Then they will say: Are we to be reprieved

Would they (now) hasten on Our doom

Hast thou then seen, if We content them for (long) years

And then cometh that which they were promised