1Ḥā, Meem.¹³²⁸

2By the clear Book,

3Indeed, We have made it an Arabic Qur'ān that you might understand.

4And indeed it is, in the Mother of the Book¹³²⁹ with Us, exalted and full of wisdom.¹³³⁰

5Then should We turn the message away, disregarding you, because you are a transgressing people?

6And how many a prophet We sent among the former peoples,

7But there would not come to them a prophet except that they used to ridicule him.

8And We destroyed greater than them¹³³¹ in [striking] power, and the example of the former peoples has preceded.

9And if you should ask them, "Who has created the heavens and the earth?" they would surely say, "They were created by the Exalted in Might, the Knowing,"

10[The one] who has made for you the earth a bed and made for you upon it roads that you might be guided

11And who sends down rain from the sky in measured amounts, and We revive thereby a dead land – thus will you be brought forth –

12And who created the species, all of them, and has made for you of ships and animals those which you mount

13That you may settle yourselves upon their backs and then remember the favor of your Lord when you have settled upon them and say, "Exalted is He who has subjected this to us, and we could not have [otherwise] subdued it.¹³³²

14And indeed we, to our Lord, will [surely] return."

15But they have attributed to Him from His servants a portion.¹³³³ Indeed, man is clearly ungrateful.

16Or has He taken, out of what He has created, daughters and chosen you for [having] sons?

17And when one of them is given good tidings of that which he attributes to the Most Merciful in comparison [i.e., a daughter], his face becomes dark, and he suppresses grief.

18So is one brought up in ornaments while being during conflict unevident¹³³⁴ [attributed to Allāh]?

19And they have made the angels, who are servants of the Most Merciful, females. Did they witness their creation? Their testimony will be recorded, and they will be questioned.

20And they said, "If the Most Merciful had willed, we would not have worshipped them." They have of that no knowledge. They are not but falsifying.

21Or have We given them a book before it [i.e., the Qur'ān] to which they are adhering?

22Rather, they say, "Indeed, we found our fathers upon a religion, and we are in their footsteps [rightly] guided."

23And similarly, We did not send before you any warner into a city except that its affluent said, "Indeed, we found our fathers upon a religion, and we are, in their footsteps, following."

24[Each warner] said, "Even if I brought you better guidance than that [religion] upon which you found your fathers?" They said, "Indeed we, in that with which you were sent,