الدُّخَان

"If ye believe me not, at least keep yourselves away from me."

(But they were aggressive:) then he cried to his Lord: "These are indeed a people given to sin."

(The reply came:) "March forth with My Servants by night: for ye are sure to be pursued.

"And leave the sea as a furrow (divided): for they are a host (destined) to be drowned."

How many were the gardens and springs they left behind,

And corn-fields and noble buildings,

And wealth (and conveniences of life), wherein they had taken such delight!

Thus (was their end)! And We made other people inherit (those things)!

And neither heaven nor earth shed a tear over them: nor were they given a respite (again).

We did deliver aforetime the Children of Israel from humiliating Punishment,

Inflicted by Pharaoh, for he was arrogant (even) among inordinate transgressors.

And We chose them aforetime above the nations, knowingly,

And granted them Signs in which there was a manifest trial

As to these (Quraish), they say forsooth:

"There is nothing beyond our first death, and we shall not be raised again.

"Then bring (back) our forefathers, if what ye say is true!"

What! Are they better than the people of Tubba and those who were before them? We destroyed them because they were guilty of sin.

We created not the heavens, the earth, and all between them, merely in (idle) sport:

We created them not except for just ends: but most of them do not understand.

Verily the Day of sorting out is the time appointed for all of them,-