O you who disbelieve! do not urge excuses today; you shall be rewarded only according to what you did.

Who created the seven heavens one above another; you see no incongruity in the creation of the Beneficent Allah; then look again, can you see any disorder?

They shall say: Yea! indeed there came to us a warner, but we rejected (him) and said: Allah has not revealed anything, you are only in a great error.

And they shall say: Had we but listened or pondered, we should not have been among the inmates of the burning fire.

Have they not seen the birds above them expanding (their wings) and contracting (them)? What is it that withholds them save the Beneficent Allah? Surely He sees everything.

Say: He it is Who brought you into being and made for you the ears and the eyes and the hearts: little is it that you give thanks.

Noon. I swear by the pen and what the angels write,

By the grace of your Lord you are not mad.

Surely We will try them as We tried the owners of the garden, when they swore that they would certainly cut off the produce in the morning,

What has happened to you? How do you judge?

That you have surely therein what you choose?

Or have you received from Us an agreement confirmed by an oath extending to the day of resurrection that you shall surely have what you demand?

And it is naught but a reminder to the nations. It is in fact a message to the world.

What is the sure calamity!

And what would make you realize what the sure calamity is!

Eat and drink pleasantly for what you did beforehand in the days gone by.

And I had not known what my account was:

My wealth has availed me nothing:

But nay! I swear by that which you see,

And that which you do not see.

And it is not the word of a poet; little is it that you believe;

Nor the word of a soothsayer; little is it that you mind.

And not one of you could have withheld Us from him.

Except in the case of their wives or those whom their right hands possess-- for these surely are not to be blamed,

To bring instead (others) better than them, and We shall not be overcome.

What is the matter with you that you fear not the greatness of Allah?

And that He-- exalted be the majesty of our Lord-- has not taken a consort, nor a son:

And that they thought as you think, that Allah would not raise anyone:

Until when they see what they are threatened with, then shall they know who is weaker in helpers and fewer in number.

Say: I do not know whether that with which you are threatened be nigh or whether my Lord will appoint for it a term:

So that He may know that they have truly delivered the messages of their Lord, and He encompasses what is with them and He records the number of all things.

And bear patiently what they say and avoid them with a becoming avoidance.

Surely We have sent to you a Messenger, a witness against you, as We sent a messenger to Firon.

Surely your Lord knows that you pass in prayer nearly two-thirds of the night, and (sometimes) half of it, and (sometimes) a third of it, and (also) a party of those with you; and Allah measures the night and the day. He knows that you are not able to do it, so He has turned to you (mercifully), therefore read what is easy of the Quran. He knows that there must be among you sick, and others who travel in the land seeking of the bounty of Allah, and others who fight in Allah's way, therefore read as much of it as is easy (to you), and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate and offer to Allah a goodly gift, and whatever of good you send on beforehand for yourselves, you will find it with Allah; that is best and greatest in reward; and ask forgiveness of Allah; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

And what will make you realize what hell is?

And We have not made the wardens of the fire others than angels, and We have not made their number but as a trial for those who disbelieve, that those who have been given the book may be certain and those who believe may increase in faith, and those who have been given the book and the believers may not doubt, and that those in whose hearts is a disease and the unbelievers may say: What does Allah mean by this parable? Thus does Allah make err whom He pleases, and He guides whom He pleases, and none knows the hosts of your Lord but He Himself; and this is naught but a reminder to the mortals.

Every soul is held in pledge for what it earns,

What has brought you into hell?

So the intercession of intercessors shall not avail them.

What is then the matter with them, that they turn away from the admonition

And they will not mind unless Allah please. He is worthy to be feared and worthy to forgive.

Man shall on that day be informed of what he sent before and (what he) put off.

And reward them, because they were patient, with garden and silk,

And you do not please except that Allah please, surely Allah is Knowing, Wise;

And what will make you comprehend what the day of decision is?

Walk on to that which you called a lie.

Eat and drink pleasantly because of what you did.

The Lord of the heavens and the earth and what is between them, the Beneficent Allah, they shall not be able to address Him.

Surely We have warned you of a chastisement near at hand: the day when man shall see what his two hands have sent before, and the unbeliever shall say: O! would that I were dust!

The day on which man shall recollect what he strove after,

And what would make you know that he would purify himself,

And no blame is on you if he would not purify himself

Cursed be man! how ungrateful is he!

Nay; but he has not done what He bade him.

Every soul shall (then) know what it has prepared.

And your companion is not gone mad.

Nor of the unseen is he a tenacious concealer.

Nor is it the word of the cursed Shaitan,

And you do not please except that Allah please, the Lord of the worlds.

Every soul shall know what it has sent before and held back.

O man ! what has beguiled you from your Lord, the Gracious one,

Into whatever form He pleased He constituted you.

They know what you do.

And they shall by no means be absent from it.

And what will make you realize what the day of judgement is?

Again, what will make you realize what the day of judgment Is?

And what will make you know what the Sijjin is?

And none gives the lie to it but every exceeder of limits, sinful one

Nay! rather, what they used to do has become like rust . upon their hearts.

And what will make you know what the highest Iliyin is?

And they were not sent to be keepers over them.

Surely the disbelievers are rewarded as they did.

And casts forth what is in it and becomes empty,

And the night and that which it drives on,

But what is the matter with them that they do not believe,

And Allah knows best what they hide,

And they were witnesses of what they did with the believers.

And they did not take vengeance on them for aught except that they believed in Allah, the Mighty, the Praised,

The great doer of what He will.

And what will make you know what the comer by night is?

He shall have neither strength nor helper.

And it is no joke.

Except what Allah pleases, surely He knows the manifest, and what is hidden.

And as for man, when his Lord tries him, then treats him with honor and makes him lead an easy life, he says: My Lord honors me.

But when He tries him (differently), then straitens to him his means of subsistence, he says: My Lord has disgraced me.

And the begetter and whom he begot.

And what will make you comprehend what the uphill road is?

And the heaven and Him Who made it,

And the earth and Him Who extended it,

And the soul and Him Who made it perfect,

And the creating of the male and the female,

And his wealth will not avail him when he perishes.

And no one has with him any boon for which he should be rewarded,

Your Lord has not forsaken you, nor has He become displeased,

Then who can give you the lie after (this) about the judgment?

Taught man what he knew not.

And what will make you comprehend what the grand night

And those who were given the Book did not become divided except after clear evidence had come to them.

And they were not enjoined anything except that they should serve Allah, being sincere to Him in obedience, upright, and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, and that is the right religion.

And man says: What has befallen her?