1Alif, Lām, Rā.⁶¹⁴ These are the verses of the Book and a clear Qur'ān [i.e., recitation].

2Perhaps those who disbelieve will wish⁶¹⁵ that they had been Muslims.

3Let them eat and enjoy themselves and be diverted by [false] hope, for they are going to know.

4And We did not destroy any city but that for it was a known decree.

5No nation will precede its term, nor will they remain thereafter.

6And they say, "O you upon whom the message has been sent down, indeed you are mad.⁶¹⁶

7Why do you not bring us the angels, if you should be among the truthful?"

8We do not send down the angels except with truth;⁶¹⁷ and they [i.e., the disbelievers] would not then be reprieved.

9Indeed, it is We who sent down the message [i.e., the Qur'ān], and indeed, We will be its guardian.

10And We had certainly sent [messengers] before you, [O Muḥammad], among the sects of the former peoples.

11And no messenger would come to them except that they ridiculed him.

12Thus do We insert it [i.e., denial] into the hearts of the criminals.

13They will not believe in it, while there has already occurred the precedent of the former peoples.

14And [even] if We opened to them a gate from the heaven and they continued therein to ascend,

15They would say, "Our eyes have only been dazzled. Rather, we are a people affected by magic."

16And We have placed within the heaven great stars and have beautified it for the observers.

17And We have protected it from every devil expelled [from the mercy of Allāh]

18Except one who steals a hearing and is pursued by a clear burning flame.

19And the earth – We have spread it and cast therein firmly set mountains and caused to grow therein [something] of every well-balanced thing.

20And We have made for you therein means of living and [for] those for whom you are not providers.⁶¹⁸

21And there is not a thing but that with Us are its depositories, and We do not send it down except according to a known [i.e., specified] measure.

22And We have sent the fertilizing winds⁶¹⁹ and sent down water from the sky and given you drink from it. And you are not its retainers.

23And indeed, it is We who give life and cause death, and We are the Inheritor.⁶²⁰

24And We have already known the preceding [generations] among you, and We have already known the later [ones to come].

25And indeed, your Lord will gather them; indeed, He is Wise and Knowing.

26And We did certainly create man out of clay from an altered black mud.

27And the jinn We created before from scorching fire.

28And [mention, O Muḥammad], when your Lord said to the angels, "I will create a human being out of clay from an altered black mud.

29And when I have proportioned him and breathed into him of My [created] soul,⁶²¹ then fall down to him in prostration."

30So the angels prostrated – all of them entirely,

31Except Iblees;⁶²² he refused to be with those who prostrated.

32[Allāh] said, "O Iblees, what is [the matter] with you that you are not with those who prostrate?"

33He said, "Never would I prostrate to a human whom You created out of clay from an altered black mud."

34[Allāh] said, "Then depart from it,⁶²³ for indeed, you are expelled.

35And indeed, upon you is the curse until the Day of Recompense."

36He said, "My Lord, then reprieve me until the Day they are resurrected."

37[Allāh] said, "So indeed, you are of those reprieved

38Until the Day of the time well-known."

39[Iblees] said, "My Lord, because You have put me in error, I will surely make [disobedience] attractive to them [i.e., mankind] on earth, and I will mislead them all

40Except, among them, Your chosen servants."

41[Allāh] said, "This is a path [of return] to Me [that is] straight.

42Indeed, My servants – no authority will you have over them, except those who follow you of the deviators.

43And indeed, Hell is the promised place for them all.

44It has seven gates; for every gate is of them [i.e., Satan's followers] a portion designated."

45Indeed, the righteous will be within gardens and springs,

46[Having been told], "Enter it in peace, safe [and secure]."

47And We will remove whatever is in their breasts of resentment,⁶²⁴ [so they will be] brothers, on thrones facing each other.

48No fatigue will touch them therein, nor from it will they [ever] be removed.

49[O Muḥammad], inform My servants that it is I who am the Forgiving, the Merciful,

50And that it is My punishment which is the painful punishment.

51And inform them about the guests of Abraham,

52When they entered upon him and said, "Peace." [Abraham] said, "Indeed, we are fearful [i.e., apprehensive] of you."

53[The angels] said, "Fear not. Indeed, we give you good tidings of a learned boy."

54He said, "Have you given me good tidings although old age has come upon me? Then of what [wonder] do you inform?"

55They said, "We have given you good tidings in truth, so do not be of the despairing."

56He said, "And who despairs of the mercy of his Lord except for those astray?"

57[Abraham] said, "Then what is your business [here], O messengers?"

58They said, "Indeed, we have been sent to a people of criminals,

59Except the family of Lot; indeed, we will save them all

60Except his wife." We [i.e., Allāh] decreed that she is of those who remain behind.⁶²⁵

61And when the messengers came to the family of Lot,

62He said, "Indeed, you are people unknown."

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