1By the [winds] scattering [dust], dispersing [it]

2And the [clouds] carrying a load [of water]

3And the ships sailing with ease

4And the [angels] apportioning [each] matter,

5Indeed, what you are promised is true.

6And indeed, the recompense is to occur.

7By the heaven containing pathways,¹⁴³¹

8Indeed, you are in differing speech.¹⁴³²

9Deluded away from it [i.e., the Qur'ān] is he who is deluded.

10Destroyed are the falsifiers¹⁴³³

11Who are within a flood [of confusion] and heedless.

12They ask, "When is the Day of Recompense?"

13[It is] the Day they will be tormented over the Fire

14[And will be told], "Taste your torment. This is that for which you were impatient."

15Indeed, the righteous will be among gardens and springs,

16Accepting what their Lord has given them. Indeed, they were before that doers of good.

17They used to sleep but little of the night,¹⁴³⁴

18And in the hours before dawn they would ask forgiveness,

19And from their properties was [given] the right of the [needy] petitioner and the deprived.

20And on the earth are signs for the certain [in faith]

21And in yourselves. Then will you not see?

22And in the heaven is your provision and whatever you are promised.

23Then by the Lord of the heaven and earth, indeed, it is truth – just as [sure as] it is that you are speaking.

24Has there reached you the story of the honored guests of Abraham?¹⁴³⁵ –

25When they entered upon him and said, "[We greet you with] peace." He answered, "[And upon you] peace; [you are] a people unknown."

26Then he went to his family and came with a fat [roasted] calf

27And placed it near them; he said, "Will you not eat?"

28And he felt from them apprehension.¹⁴³⁶ They said, "Fear not," and gave him good tidings of a learned boy.

29And his wife approached with a cry [of alarm] and struck her face and said, "[I am] a barren old woman!"

30They said, "Thus has said your Lord; indeed, He is the Wise, the Knowing."

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

32They said, "Indeed, we have been sent to a people of criminals¹⁴³⁷

33To send down upon them stones of clay,

34Marked in the presence of your Lord for the transgressors."

35So We brought out whoever was in them [i.e., the cities] of the believers.

36And We found not within them other than a [single] house of Muslims.¹⁴³⁸

37And We left therein a sign for those who fear the painful punishment.

38And in Moses [was a sign], when We sent him to Pharaoh with clear authority.

39But he turned away with his supporters and said, "A magician or a madman."

40So We took him and his soldiers and cast them into the sea,