And I had not known what my account was:

But my call has only made them flee the more:

Do you not see how Allah has created the seven heavens ,~ one above another,

Nuh said: My Lord! surely they have disobeyed me and followed him whose wealth and children have added to him nothing but loss.

Because of their wrongs they were drowned, then made to enter fire, so they did not find any helpers besides Allah.

They shall say: We were not of those who prayed;

And we used not to feed the poor;

Was he not a small seed in the seminal elements,

There surely came over man a period of time when he was a thing not worth mentioning.

Did We not destroy the former generations?

Did We not create you from contemptible water?

Have We not made the earth to draw together to itself,

Have We not made the earth an even expanse?

On the day that they see it, it will be as though they had not tarried but the latter part of a day or the early part of it.

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

Surely (as for) those who persecute the believing men and the believing women, then do not repent, they shall have the chastisement of hell, and they shall have the chastisement of burning.

Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with Ad,

The like of which were not created in the (other) cities;

Does he think that no one sees him?

Have We not given him two eyes,

Did He not find you an orphan and give you shelter?

Have We not expanded for you your breast,

Taught man what he knew not.

Does he not know that Allah does see?

Nay! if he desist not, We would certainly smite his forehead,

Those who disbelieved from among the followers of the Book and the polytheists could not have separated (from the faithful) until there had come to them the clear evidence:

Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with the possessors of the elephant?

Did He not cause their war to end in confusion,

He begets not, nor is He begotten.

And none is like Him.