1[All] praise is [due] to Allāh, who created the heavens and the earth and made the darkness and the light. Then those who disbelieve equate [others] with their Lord.

2It is He who created you from clay and then decreed a term²⁶⁰ and a specified time [known] to Him;²⁶¹ then [still] you are in dispute.

3And He is Allāh, [the only deity] in the heavens and the earth. He knows your secret and what you make public, and He knows that which you earn.

4And no sign comes to them from the signs of their Lord except that they turn away therefrom.

5For they had denied the truth when it came to them, but there is going to reach them the news of what they used to ridicule.²⁶²

6Have they not seen how many generations We destroyed before them which We had established upon the earth as We have not established you? And We sent [rain from] the sky upon them in showers and made rivers flow beneath them; then We destroyed them for their sins and brought forth after them a generation of others.

7And even if We had sent down to you, [O Muḥammad], a written scripture on a page and they touched it with their hands, the disbelievers would say, "This is not but obvious magic."

8And they say, "Why was there not sent down to him an angel?"²⁶³

But if We had sent down an angel, the matter would have been decided;²⁶⁴ then they would not be reprieved.

9And if We had made him [i.e., the messenger] an angel, We would have made him [appear as] a man, and We would have covered them with that in which they cover themselves [i.e., confusion and doubt].

10And already were messengers ridiculed before you, but those who mocked them were enveloped by that which they used to ridicule.

11Say, "Travel through the land; then observe how was the end of the deniers."

12Say, "To whom belongs whatever is in the heavens and earth?" Say, "To Allāh." He has decreed upon Himself mercy. He will surely assemble you for the Day of Resurrection, about which there is no doubt. Those who will lose themselves [that Day] do not believe.

13And to Him belongs that which reposes by night and by day, and He is the Hearing, the Knowing.

14Say, "Is it other than Allāh I should take as a protector, Creator of the heavens and earth, while it is He who feeds and is not fed?" Say, [O Muḥammad], "Indeed, I have been commanded to be the first [among you] who submit [to Allāh] and [was commanded], 'Do not ever be of the polytheists.'"

15Say, "Indeed I fear, if I should disobey my Lord, the punishment of a tremendous Day."

16He from whom it is averted that Day – [Allāh] has granted him mercy. And that is the clear attainment.

17And if