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.