Say to the believing men that they cast down their looks and guard their private parts; that is purer for them; surely Allah is Aware of what they do.

Allah has promised to those of you who believe and do good that He will most certainly make them rulers in the earth as He made rulers those before them, and that He will most certainly establish for them their religion which He has chosen for them, and that He will most certainly, after their fear, give them security in exchange; they shall serve Me, not associating aught with Me; and whoever is ungrateful after this, these it is who are the. transgressors.

And they have taken besides Him gods, who do not create anything while they are themselves created, and they control not for themselves any harm or profit, and they control not death nor life, nor raising (the dead) to life.

Say: Is this better or the abiding garden which those who guard (against evil) are promised? That shall be a reward and a resort for them.

They shall have therein what they desire abiding (in it); it is a promise which it is proper to be prayed for from your Lord.

And on the day when He shall gather them, and whatever they served besides Allah, He shall say: Was it you who led astray these My servants, or did they themselves go astray from the path?

Or do you think that most of them do hear or understand? They are nothing but as cattle; nay, they are straying farther off from the path.

And they have a crime against me, therefore I fear that they may slay me.

And it shall be said to them: Where are those that you used to worship;

So they shall be thrown down into it, they and the erring ones,

They shall say while they contend therein:

When their brother Nuh said to them: Will you not guard (against evil)?

When their brother Hud said to them: Will you not guard (against evil)?

When their brother Salih said to them: Will you not guard (against evil)?

When their brother Lut said to them: Will you not guard (against evil)?

When Shu'aib said to them: Will you not guard (against evil)?

Is it not a sign to them that the learned men of the Israelites know it?

And it shall come to them all of a sudden, while they shall not perceive;

And it behoves them not, and they have not the power to do (it).

Who keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, and of the hereafter, they are sure.

As to those who do not believe in the hereafter, We have surely made their deeds fair-seeming to them, but they blindly wander on.

These are they who shall have an evil punishment, and in the hereafter they shall be the greatest losers.

And his hosts of the jinn and the men and the birds were gathered to him, and they were formed into groups.

Until when they came to the valley of the Naml, a Namlite said: O Naml! enter your houses, (that) Sulaiman and his hosts may not crush you while they do not know.

I found her and her people adoring the sun instead of Allah, and the Shaitan has made their deeds fair-seeming to them and thus turned them from the way, so they do not go aright

Go back to them, so we will most certainly come to them with hosts which they shall have no power to oppose, and we will most certainly expel them therefrom in abasement, and they shall be in a state of ignominy.

And certainly We sent to Samood their brother Salih, saying: Serve Allah; and lo! they became two sects quarrelling with each other.

And they planned a plan, and We planned a plan while they perceived not.

Nay, He Who created the heavens and the earth, and sent down for you water from the cloud; then We cause to grow thereby beautiful gardens; it is not possible for you that you should make the trees thereof to grow. Is there a god with Allah? Nay! they are people who deviate.

Nay, their knowledge respecting the hereafter is slight and hasty; nay, they are in doubt about it; nay, they are quite blind to it

Surely this Quran declares to the children of Israel most of what they differ in.

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 on the day when We will gather from every nation a party from among those who rejected Our communications, then they shall be formed into groups.

And the word shall come to pass against them because they were unjust, so they shall not speak.

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.

And Firon's wife said: A refreshment of the eye to me and to you; do not slay him; maybe he will be useful to us, or we may take him for a son; and they did not perceive.

And she said to his sister: Follow him up. So she watched him from a distance while they did not perceive,

And We ordained that he refused to suck any foster mother before, so she said: Shall I point out to you the people of a house who will take care of him for you, and they will be benevolent to him?

And they say: If we follow the guidance with you, we shall be carried off from our country. What ! have We not settled them in a safe, sacred territory to which fruits of every kind shall be drawn?-- a sustenance from Us; but most of them do not know.

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!

Then the pleas shall become obscure to them on that day, so they shall not ask each other.

Do men think that they will be left alone on saying, We believe, and not be tried?

And certainly We sent Nuh to his people, so he remained among them a thousand years save fifty years. And the deluge overtook them, while they were unjust.

And (as to) those who disbelieve in the communications of Allah and His meeting, they have despaired of My mercy, and these it is that shall have a painful punishment.

And they ask you to hasten on the chastisement; and had not a term been appointed, the chastisement would certainly have come to them; and most certainly it will come to them all of a sudden while they will not perceive.

So when they ride in the ships they call upon Allah, being sincerely obedient to Him, but when He brings them safe to the land, lo! they associate others (with Him);

They know the outward of this world's life, but of the hereafter they are absolutely heedless.

Then as to those who believed and did good, they shall be made happy in a garden.

And when We make people taste of mercy they rejoice in it, and if an evil befall them for what their hands have already wrought, lo! they are in despair.

Allah is he Who sends forth the winds so they raise a cloud, then He spreads it forth in the sky as He pleases, and He breaks it up so that you see the rain coming forth from inside it; then when He causes it to fall upon whom He pleases of His servants, lo! they are joyful

But on that day their excuse shall not profit those who were unjust, nor shall they be regarded with goodwill.

Those who keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate and they are certain of the hereafter.

And of men is he who takes instead frivolous discourse to lead astray from Allah's path without knowledge, and to take it for a mockery; these shall have an abasing chastisement.

(As for) those who believe and do good, they shall surely have gardens of bliss,

Only they believe in Our communications who, when they are reminded of them, fall down in prostration and celebrate the praise of their Lord, and they are not proud.

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

And as for those who transgress, their abode is the fire; whenever they desire to go forth from it they shall be brought back into it, and it will be said to them: Taste the chastisement of the fire which you called a lie.

Does it not point out to them the right way, how many of the generations, in whose abodes they go about, did We destroy before them? Most surely there are signs in this; will they not then hear?

Say: On the day of judgment the faith of those who (now) disbelieve will not profit them, nor will they be respited.

Their salutation on the day that they meet Him shall be, Peace, and He has prepared for them an honourable reward.

Surely (as for) those who speak evil things of Allah and His Messenger, Allah has cursed them in this world and the here after, and He has prepared for them a chastisement bringing disgrace.

Surely Allah has cursed the unbelievers and has prepared for them a burning fire,

And (as for) those who strive hard in opposing Our communications, these it is for whom is a painful chastisement of an evil kind.

Say: Call upon those whom you assert besides Allah; they do not control the weight of an atom in the heavens or in the earth nor have they any partnership in either, nor has He among them any one to back (Him) up.

And not your wealth nor your children, are the things which bring you near Us in station, but whoever believes and does good, these it is for whom is a double reward for what they do, and they shall be secure in the highest places.

(As for) those who disbelieve, they shall have a severe punishment, and (as for) those who believe and do good, they shall have forgiveness and a great reward.

Whoever desires honor, then to Allah belongs the honor wholly. To Him do ascend the good words; and the good deeds, lift them up, and (as for) those who plan evil deeds, they shall have a severe chastisement; and (as for) their plan, it shall perish.

And (as for) those who disbelieve, for them is the fire of hell; it shall not be finished with them entirely so that they should die, nor shall the chastisement thereof be lightened to them: even thus do We retribute every ungrateful one.

And they shall cry therein for succour: O our Lord ! take us out, we will do good deeds other than those which we used to do. Did We not preserve you alive long enough, so that he who would be mindful in it should mind? And there came to you the warner; therefore taste; because for the unjust, there is no helper.

Say: Have you considered your associates which you call upon besides Allah? Show me what part of the earth they have created, or have they any share in the heavens; or, have We given them a book so that they follow a clear argument thereof? Nay, the unjust do not hold out promises one to another but only to deceive.

That you may warn a people whose fathers were not warned, so they are heedless.

Certainly the word has proved true of most of them, so they do not believe.

And We have made before them a barrier and a barrier behind them, then We have covered them over so that they do not see.

It was naught but a single cry, and lo! they were still.

And a sign to them is that We bear their offspring in the laden ship.

And if We please, We can drown them, then there shall be no succorer for them, nor shall they be rescued

And when it is said to them: Spend out of what Allah has given you, those who disbelieve say to those who believe: Shall we feed him whom, if Allah please, He could feed? You are in naught but clear error.

They wait not for aught but a single cry which will overtake them while they yet contend with one another.

There would be naught but a single cry, when lo ! they shall all be brought before Us;

They and their wives shall be in shades, reclining on raised couches.

They shall have fruits therein, and they shall have whatever they desire.

Do they not see that We have created cattle for them, out of what Our hands have wrought, so they are their masters?

And We have subjected them to them, so some of them they have to ride upon, and some of them they eat.

And therein they have advantages and drinks; will they not then be grateful?

(But) they shall not be able to assist them, and they shall be a host brought up before them.

Being driven off, and for them is a perpetual chastisement,

Then ask them whether they are stronger in creation or those (others) whom We have created. Surely We created them of firm clay.

So it shall only be a single cry, when lo! they shall see.

Surely they used to behave proudly when it was said to them: There is no god but Allah;

For them is a known sustenance,

There shall be no trouble in it, nor shall they be exhausted therewith.

Then most surely they shall have after it to drink of a mixture prepared in boiling water.

So in their footsteps they are being hastened on.

Or did We create the angels females while they were witnesses?

Has the reminder been revealed to him from among us? Nay! they are in doubt as to My reminder. Nay! they have not yet tasted My chastisement!

He said: Surely he has been unjust to you in demanding your ewe (to add) to his own ewes; and most surely most of the partners act wrongfully towards one another, save those who believe and do good, and very few are they; and Dawood was sure that We had tried him, so he sought the protection of his Lord and he fell down bowing and turned time after time (to Him).

o Dawood ! surely We have made you a ruler in the land; so judge between men with justice and do not follow desire, lest it should lead you astray from the path of Allah; (as for) those who go astray from the path of Allah, they shall surely have a severe punishment because they forgot the day of reckoning.

Now, surely, sincere obedience is due to Allah (alone) and (as for) those who take guardians besides Him, (saying), We do not serve them save that they may make us nearer to Allah, surely Allah will judge between them in that in which they differ; surely Allah does not guide him aright who is a liar, ungrateful.

Those who listen to the word, then follow the best of it; those are they whom Allah has guided, and those it is who are the men of understanding.