(We have commanded6 man concerning his parents.  His mother carrieth him with weakness upon weakness; nor until after two years is he weaned.7 Be grateful to me, and to thy parents.  Unto me shall all come.

But if they importune thee to join that with Me of which thou hast no knowledge, obey them not:  comport thyself towards them in this world as is meet and right; but follow the way of him who turneth unto me.  Unto me shall ye return at last, and then will I tell you of your doings;)

“O my son! verily God will bring everything to light, though it were but the weight of a grain of mustard-seed, and hidden in a rock or in the heavens or in the earth; for, God is subtile, informed of all.

O my son! observe prayer, and enjoin the right and forbid the wrong, and be patient under whatever shall betide thee:  for this is a bounden duty.

And distort not thy face at men; nor walk thou loftily on the earth; for God loveth no arrogant vain-glorious one.

But let thy pace be middling; and lower thy voice:  for the least pleasing of voices is surely the voice of asses.”

See ye not how that God hath put under you all that is in the heavens and all that is on the earth, and hath been bounteous to you of his favours, both for soul and body.8 But some are there who dispute of God without knowledge, and have no guidance and no illuminating Book: 

And when it is said to them, Follow ye what God hath sent down, they say, “Nay; that religion in which we found our fathers will we follow.”  What! though Satan bid them to the torment of the flame?

But whoso setteth his face toward God with self-surrender, and is a doer of that which is good, hath laid hold on a sure handle; for unto God is the issue of all things.

But let not the unbelief of the unbelieving grieve thee:  unto us shall they return:  then will we tell them of their doings; for God knoweth the very secrets of the breast.

Yet a little while will we provide for them:  afterwards will we force them to a stern punishment.

If thou ask them who hath created the heavens and the earth, they will certainly reply, “God.”  Say:  God be praised!  But most of them have no knowledge.

God’s, whatever is in the Heavens and the Earth! for God, He is the Rich,9 the Praiseworthy.

If all the trees that are upon the earth were to become pens, and if God should after that swell the sea into seven seas of ink, His words would not be exhausted:  for God is Mighty, Wise.10

Your creation and your quickening hereafter, are but as those of a single individual.  Verily, God Heareth, Seeth!

Seest thou not that God causeth the night to come in upon the day, and the day to come in upon the night? and that he hath subjected the sun and the moon to laws by which each speedeth along to an appointed goal? and that God therefore is acquainted with that which ye do?