The proofs of the power of Allah

Alif Lām Ra. These are the verses of the Book and a clear Qur’an.

There will come a time that the disbelievers will wish that they were Muslims.

Let them eat and enjoy themselves and be diverted with false hope; they will come to know.

We never destroyed any town except that it had a destined time.

No nation can advance its appointed time, nor can they delay it.

They say, “O you to whom the Reminder has been sent down, You are surely insane!

Why do you not bring us the angels, if you are truthful?”

We do not send down the angels except for a just cause, and then they [the disbelievers] would be granted no respite.

It is We Who have sent down the Reminder, and it is We Who will preserve it.

We did send messengers before you among the factions of early peoples.

No messenger came to them except that they ridiculed him.

This is how We let this [denial] enter the hearts of the wicked.

They will not believe in it, although the examples of the earlier people are well established.

Even if We were to open for them a gateway to the heaven, through which they kept ascending,

they would still say, “Our eyes have been dazzled; rather, we have been bewitched.”

We have placed constellations in the heaven and adorned it for the onlookers,

and We have guarded it from every accursed devil,

except the one who manages to eavesdrop, he will then be pursued by a visible burning flame.

As for the earth, We have spread it out and placed therein firm mountains, and caused to grow therein everything in due proportion.

And We have made therein for you means of sustenance and for those whom you do not provide.

There is nothing except that We have its treasuries, and We do not send it down except in a determined measure.

And We send fertilizing winds, and send down rain from the sky for you to drink, and it is not you who could store it.

Indeed, it is We Who give life and cause death, and We are the Inheritors [of all things].

We surely know those of you who have gone before and those who are yet to come.

It is your Lord Who will gather them together. He is All-Wise, All-Knowing.

We have created man from sounding clay, made of aging mud.

And the jinn We created before that, from smokeless fire.

And [remember] when your Lord said to the angels, “I am going to create a human being from sounding clay, made of aging mud.

When I have shaped him and breathed into him of My spirit, then fall down before him in prostration.”

Thereupon, all of the angels fell down in prostration,

except Iblīs, who refused to be with those who prostrated.

Allah said, “O Iblīs, what is the matter with you that you were not with those who prostrated?”

He said, “I am not such to prostrate before a human whom You created from sounding clay, made of aging mud.”

He said, “Then get out of here, for you are accursed,

and the curse will be upon you until the Day of Judgment.”

Iblīs said, “My Lord, then grant me respite until the Day they are resurrected.”

Allah said, “You are of those who are granted respite,

until the Day of the Appointed Time.”

He said, “My Lord, since You have sent me astray, I will surely make [sins] alluring to them on earth and mislead them all,

except Your chosen slaves among them.”

Allah said, “This is a straight path leading to Me.

You will have no authority over My slaves, except the deviants who follow you.

And Hell is certainly the promised place for them, all together.

It has seven gates; each gate will have its allotted share of them.”

The righteous will be in gardens and springs.

“Enter in peace and safety!”

We will remove all ill feelings from their hearts; like brothers, seated on couches facing one another.

No fatigue will ever touch them therein, nor will they ever be made to leave.

Inform My slaves that I am indeed the All-Forgiving, the Most Merciful,

and that My punishment is the most painful punishment.