When you said to the believers: Does it not suffice you that your Lord should assist you with three thousand of the angels sent down?

Yea! if you remain patient and are on your guard, and they come upon you in a headlong manner, your Lord will assist you with five thousand of the havoc-making angels.

When you sought aid from your Lord, so He answered you: I will assist you with a thousand of the angels following one another.

All do We aid-- these as well as those-- out of the bounty of your Lord, and the bounty of your Lord is not confined.

Say: If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would surely be consumed before the words of my Lord are exhausted, though We were to bring the like of that (sea) to add

And do not stretch your eyes after that with which We have provided different classes of them, (of) the splendor of this world's life, that We may thereby try them; and the sustenance (given) by your Lord is better and more abiding.

Have you not considered (the work of) your Lord, how He extends the shade? And if He had pleased He would certainly have made it stationary; then We have made the sun an indication of it