They say, too, “Unless an angel be sent down to him. . . .”  But if we had sent down an angel, their judgment would have come on them at once,1 and they would have had no respite: 

And if we had appointed an angel, we should certainly have appointed one in the form of a man, and we should have clothed him before them in garments like their own.2

Moreover, apostles before thee have been laughed to scorn:  but that which they laughed to scorn encompassed the mockers among them!

Say:  Go through the land:  then see what hath been the end of those who treated them as liars.

Say:  Whose is all that is in the Heavens and the Earth?

Say:  God’s.  He had imposed mercy on Himself as a law.  He will surely assemble you on the Resurrection day; there is no doubt of it.  They who are the authors of their own ruin, are they who will not believe.

His, whatsoever hath its dwelling in the night and in the day! and He, the Hearing, the Knowing!

Say:  Other than God shall I take as Lord, maker of the Heavens and of the Earth, who nourisheth all, and of none is nourished?  Say:  Verily, I am bidden to be the first of those who surrender them to God (profess Islam):  and, be not thou of those who join gods with God.

Say:  Verily, I fear, should I rebel against my Lord, the punishment of the great day.

From whomsoever it shall be averted on that day, He will have had mercy on him:  and this will be the manifest bliss.

If God touch thee with trouble, none can take it off but He:  and if He visit thee with good-it is He whose power is over all things;

And He is the Supreme over his servants; and He is the Wise, the Cognisant!

Say:  What thing is weightiest in bearing witness?  Say:  God is witness between me and you; and this Koran hath been revealed to me that I should warn you by it, and all whom it shall reach.  What! will ye really bear witness that there are other gods with God?  Say:  I bear no such witness.  Say:  Verily, He is one God, and truly am guiltless of what ye join with Him.

They to whom we have given the Book, recognise him (Muhammad) as they do their own children:3 but they who are the authors of their own perdition are they who will not believe.

And who more wicked than he who inventeth a lie concerning God, or who treateth our signs as lies?  Verily those wicked ones shall not prosper.4

And on “the Day” we will gather them all together:  then will we say to those who joined gods with God, “Where are those companion-gods of yours, as ye supposed them?”

Then shall they find no other excuse than to say, “By God our Lord! we joined not companions with Him.”

Behold! how they lie against themselves-and the gods of their own inventing desert them!

Some among them hearken unto thee:  but we have cast veils over their hearts that they should not understand the Koran, and a weight into their ears:  and though they should see all kinds of signs, they will refuse all faith in them, until when they come to thee, to dispute with thee, the infidels say, “Verily, this is nothing but fables of the ancients.”