They who were before them did plot of old.  But God attacked their building at its foundation the roof fell on them from above; and, whence they looked not for it, punishment overtook them:4

On the day of resurrection, too, will He shame them.  He will say, “Where are the gods ye associated with me, the subjects of your disputes?” They to whom “the knowledge” hath been given will say, Verily, this day shall shame and evil fall upon the infidels.

The sinners against their own souls whom the angels shall cause to die will proffer the submission, “No evil have we done.”  Nay!  God knoweth what ye have wrought: 

Enter ye therefore the gates of Hell to remain therein for ever:  and horrid the abiding place of the haughty ones!

But to those who have feared God it shall be said, “What is this that your Lord hath awarded?” They shall say, “That which is best.  To those who do good, a good reward in this present world; but better the mansion of the next, and right pleasant the abode of the God-fearing!”

Gardens of Eden into which they shall enter; rivers shall flow beneath their shades; all they wish for shall they find therein!  Thus God rewardeth those who fear Him;

To whom, as righteous persons, the angels shall say, when they receive their souls, “Peace be on you!  Enter Paradise as the meed of your labours.”

What can the infidels expect but that the angels of death come upon them, or that a sentence of thy Lord take effect?  Thus did they who flourished before them.  God was not unjust to them, but to their ownselves were they unjust;

And the ill which they had done recoiled upon them, and that which they had scoffed at encompassed them round about.

They who have joined other gods with God say, “Had He pleased, neither we nor our fathers had worshipped aught but him; nor should we, apart from him, have forbidden aught.”  Thus acted they who were before them.  Yet is the duty of the apostles other than public preaching?

And to every people have we sent an apostle saying:-Worship God and turn away from Taghout.5 Some of them there were whom God guided, and there were others decreed to err.  But go through the land and see what hath been the end of those who treated my apostles as liars!

If thou art anxious for their guidance, know that God will not guide him whom He would lead astray, neither shall they have any helpers.

And they swear by God with their most sacred oath that “God will never raise him who once is dead.”  Nay, but on Him is a promise binding, though most men know it not,-

That He may clear up to them the subject of their disputes, and that the infidels may know that they are liars.

Our word to a thing when we will it, is but to say, “Be,” and it is.6

And as to those who when oppressed have fled their country for the sake of God, we will surely provide them a goodly abode in this world, but greater the reward of the next life, did they but know it