Verily God will bring those who believe, and do the things that are right, into the Gardens, beneath whose shades the rivers flow:  but they who believe not, take their fill, and eat as the beasts eat!  And their dwelling-place the fire!

And how many cities were mightier in strength than thy city, which hath thrust thee forth!4 We destroyed them, and there was none to help them.

Shall he who followeth the clear teaching of his Lord be as he, the evil of whose doings hath been made to seem good to him, or like those who follow their own lusts?

A picture of the Paradise which is promised to the God-fearing!  Therein are rivers of water, which corrupt not:  rivers of milk, whose taste changeth not:  and rivers of wine, delicious to those who quaff it;

And rivers of honey clarified:  and therein are all kinds of fruit for them from their Lord!  Is this like the lot of those who must dwell for ever in the fire? and shall have draughts of boiling water forced on them which will rend their bowels asunder?

Some of them indeed hearken to thee, until when they go out from thee, they say with sneers to those to whom “the knowledge” hath been given, “What is this he said?” These are they whose hearts God hath sealed up, and who follow their own lusts.

But as to those who have the guidance, He will increase their guidance, and He will teach them what to fear.

For what do the infidels wait, but that the Hour come suddenly on them?  Already are its signs come,5 and when it hath come on them indeed, how can they be warned then?

Know, then, that there is no god but God:  and ask pardon for thy sin, and for believers, both men and women.  God knoweth your busy movements, and your final resting-places.

The believers say, “Oh, would that a Sura were sent down!"6 but when a peremptory Sura is revealed, whose burden is war, thou mayest see the diseased of heart look toward thee, with a look of one on whom the shadows of death have fallen!  But better in them would be obedience and becoming language.

And if, when the command for war is issued, they are true to God, it will be assuredly best for them.

Were ye not ready, if ye had turned back from Him, to spread disorder in the land, and violate the ties of blood?

These are they whom God hath cursed, and made deaf, and blinded their eyes!

Will they not then meditate on the Koran?  Are locks upon their hearts?

But as to those who return to their errors after “the guidance” hath been made plain to them, Satan shall beguile them, and fill them with his suggestions.

This-because they say to those who abhor what God hath sent down, “We will comply with you in part of what ye enjoin.”  But God knoweth their secret reservations.

But how?  When the angels, in causing them to die, shall smite them on the face and back!

This because they follow that which angereth God, and abhor what pleaseth Him:  therefore will He make their works fruitless.