There did Zakariya pray to his Lord; he said: My Lord! grant me from Thee good offspring; surely Thou art the Hearer of prayer.

Thus they were vanquished there, and they went back abased.

There shall every soul become acquainted with what it sent before, and they shall be brought back to Allah, their true Patron, and what they devised shall escape from them.

Here is protection only Allah's, the True One; He is best in (the giving of) reward and best in requiting.

And when they are cast into a narrow place in it, bound, they shall there call out for destruction.

There the believers were tried and they were shaken with severe shaking.

A host of deserters of the allies shall be here put to flight.

And certainly We sent messengers before you: there are some of them that We have mentioned to you and there are others whom We have not mentioned to you, and it was not meet for a messenger that he should bring a sign except with Allah's permission, but when the command of Allah came, judgment was given with truth, and those who treated (it) as a lie were lost.

But their belief was not going to profit them when they had seen Our punishment; (this is) Allah's law, which has indeed obtained in the matter of His servants, and there the unbelievers are lost.