Those who, if we establish them in this land, will observe prayer, and pay the alms of obligation, and enjoin what is right, and forbid what is evil.  And the final issue of all things is unto God.

Moreover, if they charge thee with imposture, then already, before them, the people of Noah, and Ad and Themoud, and the people of Abraham, and the people of Lot, and the dwellers in Madian, have charged their prophets with imposture!  Moses, too, was charged with imposture!  And I bore long with the unbelievers; then seize on them:  and how great was the change I wrought!

And how many cities which had been ungodly, and whose roofs are now laid low in ruin, have We destroyed!  And wells have been abandoned and lofty castles!

Have they not journeyed through the land?  Have they not hearts to understand with, or ears to hear with?  It is not that to these sights their eyes are blind, but the hearts in their breasts are blind!

And they will bid thee to hasten the chastisement.  But God cannot fail His threat.  And verily, a day with thy Lord is as a thousand years,12 as ye reckon them!

How many cities have I long borne with, wicked though they were, yet then laid hold on them to chastise them!  Unto Me shall all return.

Say:  O men!  I am only your open warner: 

And they who believe and do the things that are right, shall have forgiveness and an honourable provision;

But those who strive to invalidate our signs shall be inmates of Hell.

We have not sent any apostle or prophet before thee, among whose desires Satan injected not some wrong desire, but God shall bring to nought that which Satan had suggested.  Thus shall God affirm His revelations13 for God is Knowing, Wise!

That He may make that which Satan hath injected, a trial to those in whose hearts is a disease, and whose hearts are hardened.-Verily, the wicked are in a far-gone severance from the truth!-

And that they to whom “the Knowledge” hath been given, may know that the Koran is the truth from thy Lord, and may believe in it, and their hearts may acquiesce in it:  for God is surely the guider of those who believe, into the straight path.

But the Infidels will not cease to doubt concerning it, until “the Hour” come suddenly upon them, or until the chastisement of the day of desolation come upon them.

On that day the Kingdom shall be God’s:  He shall judge between them:  and they who shall have believed and done the things that are right, shall be in gardens of delight: 

But they who were Infidels and treated our signs as lies-these then-their’s a shameful chastisement!

And as to those who fled their country for the cause of God, and were afterwards slain, or died, surely with goodly provision will God provide for them! for verily, God!  He, surely, is the best of providers!

He will assuredly bring them in with an in-bringing that shall please them well:  for verily, God is right Knowing, Gracious.