الٓرۚ

تِلۡكَ

ءَايَٰتُ

ٱلۡكِتَٰبِ

وَقُرۡءَانٖ

مُّبِينٖ

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Alif-Lãm-Ra. These are the verses of the Book; the clear Quran.

˹The day will come when˺ the disbelievers will certainly wish they had submitted ˹to Allah˺.¹

˹So˺ let them eat and enjoy themselves and be diverted by ˹false˺ hope, for they will soon know.

We have never destroyed a society without a destined term.

No people can advance their doom, nor can they delay it.

They say, “O you to whom the Reminder¹ is revealed! You must be insane!

Why do you not bring us the angels, if what you say is true?”

We do not send the angels down except for a just cause, and then ˹the end of˺ the disbelievers will not be delayed.

It is certainly We Who have revealed the Reminder, and it is certainly We Who will preserve it.

Indeed, We sent messengers before you ˹O Prophet˺ among the groups of early peoples,

but no messenger ever came to them without being mocked.

This is how We allow disbelief ˹to steep˺ into the hearts of the wicked.

They would not believe in this ˹Quran˺ despite the ˹many˺ examples of those ˹destroyed˺ before.

And even if We opened for them a gate to heaven, through which they continued to ascend,

still they would say, “Our eyes have truly been dazzled! In fact, we must have been bewitched.”