Often will those who disbelieve wish that they had been Muslims.

And there never came a messenger to them but they mocked him.

They said: Nay, we have come to you with that about which they disputed.

And We gave them Our communications, but they turned aside from them;

And they hewed houses in the mountains in security.

And what they earned did not avail them.

As to what they did.

So the evil (consequences) of what they did shall afflict them and that which they mocked shall encompass them.

So that He might make manifest to them that about which they differ, and that those who disbelieve might know that they were liars.

And those who fly for Allah's sake after they are oppressed, We will most certainly give them a good abode in the world, and the reward of the hereafter is certainly much greater, did they but know;

And they shall tender submission to Allah on that day; and what they used to forge shall depart from them.

(As for) those who disbelieve and turn away from Allah's way, We will add chastisement to their chastisement because they made mischief.

What is with you passes away and what is with Allah is enduring; and We will most certainly give to those who are patient their reward for the best of what they did.

Whoever does good whether male or female and he is a believer, We will most certainly make him live a happy life, and We will most certainly give them their reward for the best of what they did.

And Allah sets forth a parable: (Consider) a town safe and secure to which its means of subsistence come in abundance from every quarter; but it became ungrateful to Allah's favors, therefore Allah made it to taste the utmost degree of hunger and fear because of what they wrought.

The Sabbath was ordained only for those who differed about it, and most surely your Lord will judge between them on the resurrection day concerning that about which they differed.

Or, do you think that the Fellows of the Cave and the Inscription were of Our wonderful signs?

They whose eyes were under a cover from My reminder and they could not even hear.

And We did not make them bodies not eating the food, and they were not to abide (forever).

And certainly messengers before you were scoffed at, then there befell those of them who scoffed that at which they had scoffed.

He said: Surely (some doer) has done it; the chief of them is this, therefore ask them, if they can speak.

And We made them Imams who guided (people) by Our command, and We revealed to them the doing of good and the keeping up of prayer and the giving of the alms, and Us (alone) did they serve;

And (as for) Lut, We gave him wisdom and knowledge, and We delivered him from the town which wrought abominations; surely they were an evil people, transgressors;

And We helped him against the people who rejected Our communications; surely they were an evil people, so We drowned them all.

So We responded to him and gave him Yahya and made his wife fit for him; surely they used to hasten, one with another In deeds of goodness and to call upon Us, hoping and fearing and they were humble before Us.

To Firon and his chiefs, but they behaved haughtily and they were an insolent people.

So they rejected them and became of those who were destroyed.

On the day when their tongues and their hands and their feet shall bear witness against them as to what they did.

Only those are believers who believe in Allah and His Messenger, and when they are with him on a momentous affair they go not away until they have asked his permission; surely they who ask your permission are they who believe in Allah and His Messenger; so when they ask your permission for some affair of theirs, give permission to whom you please of them and ask forgiveness for them from Allah; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

They shall say: Glory be to Thee; it was not beseeming for us that we should take any guardians besides Thee, but Thou didst make them and their fathers to enjoy until they forsook the reminder, and they were a people in perdition,

And certainly they have (often) passed by the town on which was rained an evil rain; did they not then see it? Nay! they did not hope to be raised again.

And there does not come to them a new reminder from the Beneficent Allah but they turn aside from it.

So they have indeed rejected (the truth), therefore the news of that which they mock shall soon come to them.

Haply we may follow the magicians, if they are the vanquishers.

He said: And what knowledge have I of what they do?

So that he should have recited it to them, they would not have believed therein.

Then there comes to them that with which they are threatened,

That which they were made to enjoy shall not avail them?

And enter your hand into the opening of your bosom, it shall come forth white without evil; among nine signs to Firon and his people, surely they are a transgressing people.

.And We delivered those who believed and who guarded (against evil).

And when the word shall come to pass against them, We shall bring forth for them a creature from the earth that shall i wound them, because people did not believe in Our communications.

And to grant them power in the land, and to make Firon and Haman and their hosts see from them what they feared.

And Firon's family took him up that he might be an enemy and a grief for them; surely Firon and Haman and their hosts were wrongdoers.

Enter your hand into the opening of your bosom, it will come forth white without evil, and draw your hand to yourself to ward off fear: so these two shall be two arguments from your Lord to Firon and his chiefs, surely they are a transgressing people.

And it will be said: Call your associate-gods. So they will call upon them, but they will not answer them, and they shall see the punishment; would that they had followed the right way!

And We will draw forth from among every nation a witness and say: Bring your proof; then shall they know that the truth is Allah's, and that which they forged shall depart from them.

Whoever brings good, he shall have better than it, and whoever brings evil, those who do evil shall not be rewarded (for) aught except what they did.

And (as for) those who believe and do good, We will most certainly do away with their evil deeds and We will most certainly reward them the best of what they did.

And most certainly they shall carry their own burdens, and other burdens with their own burdens, and most certainly they shall be questioned on the resurrection day as to what they forged.

And when Our messengers came to Ibrahim with the good news, they said: Surely we are going to destroy the people of this town, for its people are unjust.

Surely We will cause to come down upon the people of this town a punishment from heaven, because they transgressed.

And (We destroyed) Ad and Samood, and from their dwellings (this) is apparent to you indeed; and the Shaitan made their deeds fair-seeming to them, so he kept them back from the path, though they were endowed with intelligence and skill,

And (We destroyed) Qaroun and Firon and Haman; and certainly Musa came to them with clear arguments, but they behaved haughtily in the land; yet they could not outstrip (Us).

The parable of those who take guardians besides Allah is as the parable of the spider that makes for itself a house; and most surely the frailest of the houses is the spider's house did they but know.

And this life of the world is nothing but a sport and a play; and as for the next abode, that most surely is the life-- did they but know!

Then evil was the end of those who did evil, because they | rejected the communications of Allah and used to mock them.

And they shall not have any intercessors from among their gods they have joined with Allah, and they shall be deniers of their associate-gods.

Of those who divided their religion and became seas every sect rejoicing in what they had with them

Or, have We sent down upon them an authority so that it speaks of that which they associate with Him?

Though they were before this, before it was sent down upon them, confounded in sure despair.

And at the time when the hour shall come, the guilty shall swear (that) they did not tarry but an hour; thus are they ever turned away.

So no soul knows what is hidden for them of that which will refresh the eyes; a reward for what they did.

As for those who believe and do good, the gardens are their abiding-place; an entertainment for what they did.

And We made of them Imams to guide by Our command when they were patient, and they were certain of Our communications.

Surely your Lord will judge between them on the day of resurrection concerning that wherein they differ.

And certainly they had made a covenant with Allah before, that) they would not turn (their) backs; and Allah's covenant shall be inquired of.

They think the allies are not gone, and if the allies should come (again) they would fain be in the deserts with the desert Arabs asking for news about you, and if they were among you they would not fight save a little.

But when We decreed death for him, naught showed them his death but a creature of the earth that ate away his staff; and when it fell down, the jinn came to know plainly that if they had known the unseen, they would not have tarried in abasing torment.

And those who were deemed weak shall say to those who were proud. Nay, (it was) planning by night and day when you told us to disbelieve in Allah and to set up likes with Him. And they shall conceal regret when they shall see the punishment; and We will put shackles on the necks of those who disbelieved; they shall not be requited but what they did.

And on the day when He will gather them all together, then will He say to the angels: Did these worship you?

They shall say: Glory be to Thee! Thou art our Guardian, not they; nay! they worshipped the jinn; most of them were believers in them.

And a barrier shall be placed between them and that which they desire, as was done with the likes of them before: surely they are in a disquieting doubt.

Alas for the servants! there comes not to them an messenger but they mock at him.

And there comes not to them a communication of the communications of their Lord but they turn aside from it.

On that day We will set a seal upon their mouths, and their hands shall speak to Us, and their feet shall bear witness of what they earned.

Gather together those who were unjust and their associates, and what they used to worship

And We helped them, so they were the vanquishers.

And surely they used to say:

So Allah made them taste the disgrace in this world's life, and certainly the punishment of the hereafter is greater; did they but know!

So that Allah will do away with the worst of what they did and give them their reward for the best of what they do.

Or have they taken intercessors besides Allah? Say: what! even though they did not ever have control over anything, nor do they understand.

Say: O Allah! Originator of the heavens and the earth, Knower of the unseen and the seen! Thou (only) judgest between Thy servants as to that wherein they differ.

And the evil (consequences) of what they wrought shall become plain to them, and the very thing they mocked at shall beset them.

Those before them did say it indeed, but what they earned availed them not.

Have they not travelled in the earth and seen how was the end of those who were before them? Mightier than these were they in strength-- and in fortifications in the land, but Allah destroyed them for their sins; and there was not for them any defender against Allah.

Thus were turned away those who denied the communications of Allah.

Have they not then journeyed in the land and seen how was the end of those before them? They were more (in numbers) than these and greater in strength and in fortifications in the land, but what they earned did not avail them.

Then when their messengers came to them with clear arguments, they exulted in what they had with them of knowledge, and there beset them that which they used to mock.

Then as to Ad, they were unjustly proud in the land, and they said: Who is mightier in strength than we? Did they not see that Allah Who created them was mightier than they in strength, and they denied Our communications?

And as to Samood, We showed them the right way, but they chose error above guidance, so there overtook them the scourge of an abasing chastisement for what they earned.

And We delivered those who believed and guarded (against evil).

Until when they come to it, their ears and their eyes and their skins shall bear witness against them as to what they did.

And We have appointed for them comrades so they have made fair-seeming to them what is before them and what is behind them, and the word proved true against them-- among the nations of the jinn and the men that have passed away before them-- that they shall surely be losers.

Therefore We will most certainly make those who disbelieve taste a severe punishment, and We will most certainly reward them for the evil deeds they used to do.

That is the reward of the enemies of Allah-- the fire; for them therein shall be the house of long abiding; a reward for their denying Our communications.

And away from them shall go what they called upon before, and they shall know for certain that there is no escape for them.

And there came not to them a prophet but they mocked at him.

So he incited his people to levity and they obeyed him: surely they were a transgressing people.

Those who believed in Our communications and were submissive:

And We are not unjust to them, but they themselves were unjust.