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