Therefore eat of what Allah has given you, lawful and good (things), and give thanks for Allah's favor if Him do you serve.

And if you take your turn, then retaliate with the like of that with which you were afflicted; but if you are patient, it will certainly be best for those who are patient.

If you do good, you will do good for your own souls, and if you do evil, it shall be for them. So when the second promise came (We raised another people) that they may bring you to grief and that they may enter the mosque as they entered it the first time, and that they might destroy whatever they gained ascendancy over with utter destruction.

It may be that your Lord will have mercy on you, and if you again return (to disobedience) We too will return (to punishment), and We have made hell a prison for the unbelievers.

Your Lord knows best what is in your minds; if you are good, then He is surely Forgiving to those who turn (to Him) frequently.

The seven heavens declare His glory and the earth (too), and those who are in them; and there is not a single thing but glorifies Him with His praise, but you do not understand their glorification; surely He is Forbearing, Forgiving.

We know best what they listen to when they listen to you, and when they take counsel secretly, when the unjust say: You follow only a man deprived of reason.

On the day when He will call you forth, then shall you obey Him, giving Him praise, and you will think that you tarried but a little (while).

Your Lord knows you best; He will have mercy on you if He pleases, or He will chastise you if He pleases; and We have not sent you as being in charge of them.

And there is not a town but We will destroy it before the day of resurrection or chastise it with a severe chastisement; this is written in the Divine ordinance.

He said: Tell me, is this he whom Thou hast honored above me? If Thou shouldst respite me to the day of resurrection, I will most certainly cause his progeny to perish except a few.

And surely they had purposed to turn you away from that which We have revealed to you, that you should forge against Us other than that, and then they would certainly have taken you for a friend.

And surely they purposed to unsettle you from the land that they might expel you from it, and in that case they will not tarry behind you but a little.

And if We please, We should certainly take away that which We have revealed to you, then you would not find for it any protector against Us.

Say: If men and jinn should combine together to bring the like of this Quran, they could not bring the like of it, though some of them were aiders of others.

And they say: Glory be to our Lord! most surely the promise of our Lord was to be fulfilled.

They have no knowledge of it, nor had their fathers; a grievous word it is that comes out of their mouths; they speak nothing but a lie.

Then maybe you will kill yourself with grief, sorrowing after them, if they do not believe in this announcement.

For surely if they prevail against you they would stone you to death or force you back to their religion, and then you will never succeed.

And say: The truth is from your Lord, so let him who please believe, and let him who please disbelieve; surely We have prepared for the iniquitous a fire, the curtains of which shall encompass them about; and if they cry for water, they shall be given water like molten brass which will scald their faces; evil the drink and ill the resting-place.

And I do not think the hour will come, and even if I am returned to my Lord I will most certainly find a returning place better than this.

And wherefore did you not say when you entered your garden: It is as Allah has pleased, there is no power save in Allah? If you consider me to be inferior to you in wealth and children,

And who is more unjust than he who is reminded of the communications of his Lord, then he turns away from them and forgets what his two hands have sent before? Surely We have placed veils over their hearts lest they should understand it and a heaviness in their ears; and if you call them to the guidance, they will not ever follow the right course in that case.

He said: If Allah pleases, you will find me patient and I shall not disobey you in any matter.

He said: If you would follow me, then do not question me about any thing until I myself speak to you about it

He said: If I ask you about anything after this, keep me not in your company; indeed you shall have (then) found an excuse in my case.

She said: Surely I fly for refuge from you to the Beneficent Allah, if you are one guarding (against evil).

He said: Do you dislike my gods, O Ibrahim? If you do not desist I will certainly revile you, and leave me for a time.

And there is not one of you but shall come to it; this is an unavoidable decree of your Lord.

There is no one in the heavens and the earth but will come to the Beneficent Allah as a servant.

And if you utter the saying aloud, then surely He knows the secret, and what is yet more hidden.

They said: These are most surely two magicians who wish to turn you out from your land by their magic and to take away your best traditions.

They shall consult together secretly: You did tarry but ten (centuries).

We know best what they say, when the fairest of them in course would say: You tarried but a day.

And We did not send before you any but men to whom We sent revelation, so ask the followers of the reminder if you do not

Had We wished to make a diversion, We would have made it from before Ourselves: by no means would We do (it).

And We did not ordain abiding for any mortal before you. What! Then if you die, will they abide?

And when those who disbelieve see you, they do not take you but for one to be scoffed at: Is this he who speaks of your gods? And they are deniers at the mention of the Beneficent Allah.

And they say: When will this threat come to pass if you are truthful?

And if a blast of the chastisement of your Lord were to touch them, they will certainly say: O woe to us! surely we were unjust.

And We will set up a just balance on the day of resurrection, so no soul shall be dealt with unjustly in the least; and though there be the weight of a grain of mustard seed, (yet) will We bring it, and sufficient are We to take account.

He said: Surely (some doer) has done it; the chief of them is this, therefore ask them, if they can speak.

They said: Burn him and help your gods, if you are going to do (anything).

But if they turn back, say: I have given you warning in fairness and I do not know whether what you are threatened with is near or far;

And I do not know if this may be a trial for you and a provision till a time.

O people! if you are in doubt about the raising, then surely We created you from dust, then from a small seed, then from a clot, then from a lump of flesh, complete in make and incomplete, that We may make clear to you; and We cause what We please to stay in the wombs till an appointed time, then We bring you forth as babies, then that you may attain your maturity; and of you is he who is caused to die, and of you is he who is brought back to the worst part of life, so that after having knowledge he does not know anything; and you see the earth sterile land, but when We send down on it the water, it stirs and swells and brings forth of every kind a beautiful herbage.

And among men is he who serves Allah (standing) on the verge, so that if good befalls him he is satisfied therewith, but if a trial afflict him he turns back headlong; he loses this world as well as the hereafter; that is a manifest loss.

Those who, should We establish them in the land, will keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate and enjoin good and forbid evil; and Allah's is the end of affairs.

And if they reject you, then already before you did the people of Nuh and Ad and Samood reject (prophets).

And if they contend with you, say: Allah best knows what you do.

O people! a parable is set forth, therefore listen to it: surely those whom you call upon besides Allah cannot create fly, though they should all gather for it, and should the fly snatch away anything from them, they could not take it back from i weak are the invoker and the invoked.

He is only a madman, so bear with him for a time.

Most surely there are signs in this, and most surely We are ever trying (men).

And if you obey a mortal like yourselves, then most surely you will be losers:

There is naught but our life in this world; we die and we live and we shall not be raised again.

He is naught but a man who has forged a lie against Allah, and we are not going to believe in him.

Certainly we are promised this, and (so were) our fathers aforetime; this is naught but stories of those of old.

Say: Whose is the earth, and whoever is therein, if you know?

Say: Who is it in Whose hand is the kingdom of all things and Who gives succor, but against Him Succor is not given, if you do but know?

O our Lord! Take us out of it; then if we return (to evil) surely we shall be unjust.

He will say: You did tarry but a little-- had you but known (it):

(As for) the fornicatress and the fornicator, flog each of them, (giving) a hundred stripes, and let not pity for them detain you in the matter of obedience to Allah, if you believe in Allah and the last day, and let a party of believers witness their chastisement.

And the fifth (time) that the curse of Allah be on him if he is one of the liars.

And the fifth (time) that the wrath of Allah be on her if he is one of the truthful.

Allah admonishes you that you should not return to the like of it ever again if you are believers.

But if you do not find any one therein, then do not enter them until permission is given to you; and if it is said to you: Go back, then go back; this is purer for you; and Allah is Cognizant of what you do.

And marry those among you who are single and those who are fit among your male slaves and your female slaves; if they are needy, Allah will make them free from want out of His grace; and Allah is Ample-giving, Knowing.

And let those who do not find the means to marry keep chaste until Allah makes them free from want out of His grace. And (as for) those who ask for a writing from among those whom your right hands possess, give them the writing if you know any good in them, and give them of the wealth of Allah which He has given you; and do not compel your slave girls to prostitution, when they desire to keep chaste, in order to seek the frail good of this world's life; and whoever compels them, then surely after their compulsion Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

And if the truth be on their side, they come to him quickly, obedient.

And they swear by Allah with the most energetic of their oaths that if you command them they would certainly go forth. Say: Swear not; reasonable obedience (is desired); surely Allah is aware of what you do.

Say: Obey Allah and obey the Messenger; but if you turn back, then on him rests that which is imposed on him and on you rests that which is imposed on you; and if you obey him, you are on the right way; and nothing rests on the Messenger but clear delivering (of the message).

And those who disbelieve say: This is nothing but a lie which he has forged, and other people have helped him at it; so indeed they have done injustice and (uttered) a falsehood.

Or (why is not) a treasure sent down to him, or he is made to have a garden from which he should eat? And the unjust say: You do not follow any but a man deprived of reason.

Blessed is He Who, if He please, will give you what is better than this, gardens beneath which rivers flow, and He will give you palaces.

And when they see you, they do not take you for aught but a mockery: Is this he whom Allah has raised to be an messenger?

He had well-nigh led us astray from our gods had we not adhered to them patiently! And they will know, when they see the punishment, who is straying farther off 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.

If We please, We should send down upon them a sign from the heaven so that their necks should stoop to it.

He said: The Lord of the heavens and the earth and what is between them, if you would be sure.

He said: The Lord of the east and the west and what is between them, if you understand.

Said he: If you will take a god besides me, I will most certainly make you one of the imprisoned.

Said he: Bring it then, if you are of the truthful ones.

Haply we may follow the magicians, if they are the vanquishers.

And when the magicians came, they said to Firon: Shall we get a reward if we are the vanquishers?

By Allah! we were certainly in manifest error,

And I do not ask you any reward for it; my reward is only with the Lord of the worlds:

Their account is only with my Lord, if you could perceive

I am naught but a plain warner.

They said: If you desist not, O Nuh, you shall most certainly be of those stoned to death.

And I do not ask you any reward for it; surely my reward is only with the Lord of the worlds

This is naught but a custom of the ancients;

And I do not ask you any reward for it; my reward is only with the Lord of the worlds:

You are naught but a mortal like ourselves; so bring a sign if you are one of the truthful.

And I do not ask you any reward for it; my reward is only with the Lord of the worlds;

They said: If you desist not, O Lut! you shall surely be of those who are expelled.

And I do not ask you any reward for it, my reward is only with the Lord of the worlds;

And you are naught but a mortal like ourselves, and we know you to be certainly of the liars.

Therefore cause a portion of the heaven to come down upon us, if you are one of the truthful.

Have you then considered if We let them enjoy themselves for years,

But if they disobey you, then say: Surely I am clear of what you do.