He maketh alive and He causeth to die, and to Him shall ye return.

O men! now hath a warning come to you from your Lord, and a medicine for what is in your breasts, and a guidance and a mercy to believers.

Say:  Through the grace of God and his mercy! and in this therefore let them rejoice:  better is this than all ye amass.

Say:  What think ye? of what God hath sent down to you for food, have ye made unlawful and lawful?  Say:  Hath God permitted you? or invent ye on the part of God?

But what on the day of Resurrection will be the thought of those who invent a lie on the part of God?  Truly God is full of bounties to man; but most of them give not thanks.

Thou shalt not be employed in affairs, nor shalt thou read a text out of the Koran, nor shall ye work any work, but we will be witnesses over you when ye are engaged therein:  and not the weight of an atom on Earth or in Heaven escapeth thy Lord; nor is there aught that is less than this or greater, but it is in the perspicuous Book.

Are not the friends of God, those on whom no fear shall come, nor shall they be put to grief?

They who believe and fear God-

For them are good tidings in this life, and in the next!  There is no change in the words of God!  This, the great felicity!

And let not their discourse grieve thee:  for all might is God’s:  the Hearer, the Knower, He!

Is not whoever is in the Heavens and the Earth subject to God?  What then do they follow who, beside God, call upon deities they have joined with Him?  They follow but a conceit, and they are but liars!

It is He who hath ordained for you the night wherein to rest, and the lightsome day.  Verily in this are signs for those who hearken.

They say, “God hath begotten children.”  No! by his glory!  He is the self-sufficient.  All that is in the Heavens and all that is in the Earth is His!  Have ye warranty for that assertion?  What! speak ye of God that which ye know not?

Say:  Verily, they who devise this lie concerning God shall fare ill.

A portion have they in this world!  Then to us they return!  Then make we them to taste the vehement torment, for that they were unbelievers.

Recite to them the history of Noah,10 when he said to his people,-If, O my people! my abode with you, and my reminding you of the signs of God, be grievous to you, yet in God is my trust:  Muster, therefore, your designs and your false gods, and let not your design be carried on by you in the dark:  then come to some decision about me, and delay not.

And if ye turn your backs on me, yet ask I no reward from you:  my reward is with God alone, and I am commanded to be of the Muslims.

But they treated him as a liar:  therefore we rescued him and those who were with him in the ark, and we made them to survive the others; and we drowned those who charged our signs with falsehood.  See, then, what was the end of these warned ones!