“This hath befallen you, for that when One God was proclaimed to you, ye believed not:  but when partners had been united with him, ye believed:  But judgment belongeth unto God, the High, the Great.”

It is He who sheweth you his signs, and sendeth down supplies to you from Heaven:  but none will receive warning save he who turneth to God.

Call then on God, offering him a pure worship, though the infidels abhor it.

Of exalted grade, of the throne possessed, He sendeth forth the Spirit at His own behest on whomsoever of His servants He pleaseth, that He may warn of the day of meeting,

The day when they shall come forth from their graves, when nought that concerneth them shall be hidden from God.  With whom shall be the power supreme on that day?  With God, the One, the Almighty.

On that day shall every soul be recompensed as it hath deserved:  no injustice on that day!  Verily, God will be swift to reckon.

Warn them, then, of the approaching day, when men’s hearts shall rise up, choking them, into their throats.

The evil-doers shall have no friend or intercessor who shall prevail.

God knoweth the deceitful of eye, and what men’s breasts conceal.

And everything will God decide with truth:  But nothing shall those gods whom men call on beside him, decide.  Verily, God! the Hearer, the Beholder, He!

Have they never journeyed in this land, and seen what hath been the end of those who flourished before them?  Mightier were they in strength than these Meccans, and their traces remain in the land:  Yet God took them in their sins, and there was none to defend them against God.

This, because their apostles had come to them with proofs of their mission, and they believed not:  so God took them in hand; for He is mighty, vehement in punishing.

Moreover we had sent Moses of old with our signs and with clear authority.

To Pharaoh, and Haman, and Karun:4 and they said, “Sorcerer, impostor.”

And when he came to them from our presence with the truth, they said, “Slay the sons of those who believe as he doth, and save their females alive;” but the stratagem of the unbelievers issued only in failure.

And Pharaoh said, “Let me alone, that I may kill Moses; and let him call upon his Lord:  I fear lest he change your religion, or cause disorder to shew itself in the land.”

And Moses said, “I take refuge with my Lord and your Lord from every proud one who believeth not in the day of reckoning.”

And a man of the family of Pharaoh, who was a believer,5 but hid his faith, said, “Will ye slay a man because he saith my Lord is God, when he hath already come to you with proofs of his mission from your Lord? and if he be a liar, on him will be his lie:6 but if he be a man of truth, part at least of what he threateneth will fall upon you.  Truly God guideth not him who is a transgressor, a liar.