1[The time of] their account has approached for the people, while they are in heedlessness turning away.

2No mention [i.e., revelation] comes to them anew from their Lord except that they listen to it while they are at play

3With their hearts distracted. And those who do wrong conceal their private conversation, [saying], "Is this [Prophet] except a human being like you? So would you approach magic while you are aware [of it]?"

4He [the Prophet (ﷺ)] said, "My Lord knows whatever is said throughout the heaven and earth, and He is the Hearing, the Knowing."

5But they say, "[The revelation is but] a mixture of false dreams; rather, he has invented it; rather, he is a poet. So let him bring us a sign just as the previous [messengers] were sent [with miracles]."

6Not a [single] city which We destroyed believed before them,⁸¹⁰ so will they believe?

7And We sent not before you, [O Muḥammad], except men to whom We revealed [the message], so ask the people of the message [i.e., former scriptures] if you do not know.

8And We did not make them [i.e., the prophets] forms not eating food,⁸¹¹ nor were they immortal [on earth].

9Then⁸¹² We fulfilled for them the promise, and We saved them and whom We willed and destroyed the transgressors.

10We have certainly sent down to you a Book [i.e., the Qur'ān] in which is your mention.⁸¹³ Then will you not reason?

11And how many a city which was unjust⁸¹⁴ have We shattered and produced after it another people.

12And when they [i.e., its inhabitants] perceived Our punishment, at once they fled from it.

13[Some angels said], "Do not flee but return to where you were given luxury and to your homes – perhaps you will be questioned."⁸¹⁵

14They said, "O woe to us! Indeed, we were wrongdoers."

15And that declaration of theirs did not cease until We made them [as] a harvest [mowed down], extinguished [like a fire].

16And We did not create the heaven and earth and that between them in play.

17Had We intended to take a diversion,⁸¹⁶ We could have taken it from [what is] with Us – if [indeed] We were to do so.

18Rather, We dash the truth upon falsehood, and it destroys it,⁸¹⁷ and thereupon it departs. And for you is destruction from that which you describe.⁸¹⁸

19To Him belongs whoever is in the heavens and the earth. And those near Him [i.e., the angels] are not prevented by arrogance from His worship, nor do they tire.

20They exalt [Him] night and day [and] do not slacken.

21Or have they [i.e., men] taken for themselves gods from the earth who resurrect [the dead]?

22Had there been within them [i.e., the heavens and earth] gods besides Allāh, they both would have been ruined. So exalted is Allāh, Lord of the Throne, above what they describe.

23He is not questioned about what He does, but they will be questioned.

24Or have they taken gods besides Him? Say, [O Muḥammad], "Produce your proof. This [Qur'ān] is the message for those with me and the message of those before me."⁸¹⁹ But most of them do not know the truth, so they are turning away.

25And We sent not before you any messenger except that We revealed to him that, "There is no deity except Me, so worship Me."

26And they say, "The Most Merciful has taken a son." Exalted is He! Rather, they⁸²⁰ are [but] honored servants.

27They cannot precede Him in word, and they act by His command.

28He knows what is [presently] before them and what will be after them,⁸²¹ and they cannot intercede except on behalf of one whom He approves. And they, from fear of Him, are apprehensive.

29And whoever of them should say, "Indeed, I am a god besides Him" – that one We would recompense with Hell. Thus do We recompense the wrongdoers.

30Have those who disbelieved not considered that the heavens and the earth were a joined entity, and We separated them and made from water every living thing? Then will they not believe?

31And We placed within the earth firmly set mountains, lest it should shift with them, and We made therein [mountain] passes [as] roads that they might be guided.

32And We made the sky a protected ceiling, but they, from its signs,⁸²² are turning away.

33And it is He who created the night and the day and the sun and the moon; all [heavenly bodies] in an orbit are swimming.

34And We did not grant to any man before you eternity [on earth]; so if you die – would they be eternal?

35Every soul will taste death. And We test you with evil and with good as trial; and to Us you will be returned.

36And when those who disbelieve see you, [O Muḥammad], they take you not except in ridicule, [saying], "Is this the one who mentions [i.e., insults] your gods?" And they are, at the mention of the Most Merciful, disbelievers.

37Man was created of haste [i.e., impatience]. I will show you My signs [i.e., vengeance], so do not impatiently urge Me.

38And they say, "When is this promise, if you should be truthful?"

39If those who disbelieved but knew the time when they will not avert the Fire from their faces or from their backs and they will not be aided...⁸²³

40Rather, it will come to them unexpectedly and bewilder them, and they will not be able to repel it, nor will they be reprieved.

41And already were messengers ridiculed before you, but those who mocked them were enveloped by what they used to ridicule.

42Say, "Who can protect you at night or by day from the Most Merciful?" But they are, from the remembrance