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Alif-Lãm-Mĩm-Ṣãd.

˹This is˺ a Book sent down to you ˹O Prophet˺—do not let anxiety into your heart regarding it—so with it you may warn ˹the disbelievers˺, and as a reminder to the believers.

Follow what has been sent down to you from your Lord, and do not take others as guardians besides Him. How seldom are you mindful!

˹Imagine˺ how many societies We have destroyed! Our torment took them by surprise ˹while sleeping˺ at night or midday.

Their only cry—when overwhelmed by Our torment—was, “We have indeed been wrongdoers.”

We will surely question those who received messengers and We will question the messengers ˹themselves˺.

Then We will give them a full account with sure knowledge—for We were never absent.

The weighing on that Day will be just. As for those whose scale will be heavy ˹with good deeds˺, ˹only˺ they will be successful.

But those whose scale is light, they have doomed themselves for wrongfully denying Our signs.

We have indeed established you on earth and provided you with a means of livelihood. ˹Yet˺ you seldom give any thanks.

Surely We created you,¹ then shaped you, then said to the angels, “Prostrate before Adam,” so they all did—but not Iblîs,² who refused to prostrate with the others.