Shall he then who knoweth that what hath been sent down to thee from thy Lord is the truth, act like him who is blind?  Men of insight only will bear this in mind,

Who fulfil their pledge to God, and break not their compact: 

And who join together what God hath bidden to be joined, and who fear their Lord, and dread an ill reckoning;

And who, from desire to see the face of their Lord, are constant amid trials, and observe prayer and give alms, in secret and openly, out of what we have bestowed upon them, and turn aside evil by good:  for these is the recompense of that abode,

Gardens of Eden-into which they shall enter together with the just of their fathers, and their wives, and their descendants:  and the angels shall go in unto them at every portal: 

“Peace be with you!” say they, “because ye have endured all things!” Charming the recompense of their abode!

But those who, after having contracted it, break their covenant with God, and cut asunder what God hath bidden to be united, and commit misdeeds on the earth, these, a curse awaiteth them, and an ill abode!

God is open-handed with supplies to whom he will, or is sparing.  They rejoice in the life that now is, but this present life is but a passing good, in respect of the life to come!3

And they who believe not say, “Unless a sign be sent down to him from his Lord. . . .”  Say:  God truly will mislead whom he will; and He will guide to Himself him who turneth to Him,

Those who believe, and whose hearts rest securely on the thought of God.  What!  Shall not men’s hearts repose in the thought of God?  They who believe and do the things that be right-blessedness awaiteth them, and a goodly home.

Thus have we sent thee to a people whom other peoples have preceded, that thou mightest rehearse to them our revelations to thee.  Yet they believe not on the God of Mercy.4 Say:  He is my Lord.  There is no God but He.  In Him do I put my trust.  To Him must I return.

If there were a Koran by which the mountains could be set in motion, or the earth cleft, or the dead be made to speak !  But all sovereignty is in the hands of God.  Do then believers doubt5 that had He pleased God would certainly have guided all men aright?

Misfortune shall not cease to light on the unbelievers for what they have done, or to take up its abode hard by their dwellings, until the threat of God come to pass.  Verily, God will not fail his plighted word.

Before thee indeed have apostles been mocked at; but though I bore long with the unbelievers, at last I seized upon them;-and how severe was my punishment!

Who is it then that is standing over every soul to mark its actions?  Yet have they set up associates with God.  Say:  Name them.  What!  Would ye inform God of that which He knoweth not on the Earth?  Or are they not a mere empty name?  But prepared of old for the infidels was this fraud of theirs; and they are turned aside from the path; and whom God causeth to err, no guide shall there be for him!