الْمُلْك

Or who is there that can provide you with Sustenance if He were to withhold His provision? Nay, they obstinately persist in insolent impiety and flight (from the Truth).

Is then one who walks headlong, with his face grovelling, better guided,- or one who walks evenly on a Straight Way?

Say: "It is He Who has created you (and made you grow), and made for you the faculties of hearing, seeing, feeling and understanding: little thanks it is ye give.

Say: "It is He Who has multiplied you through the earth, and to Him shall ye be gathered together."

They ask: When will this promise be (fulfilled)? - If ye are telling the truth.

Say: "As to the knowledge of the time, it is with Allah alone: I am (sent) only to warn plainly in public."

At length, when they see it close at hand, grieved will be the faces of the Unbelievers, and it will be said (to them): "This is (the promise fulfilled), which ye were calling for!"

Say: "See ye?- If Allah were to destroy me, and those with me, or if He bestows His Mercy on us,- yet who can deliver the Unbelievers from a grievous Penalty?"

Say: "He is (Allah) Most Gracious: We have believed in Him, and on Him have we put our trust: So, soon will ye know which (of us) it is that is in manifest error."

Say: "See ye?- If your stream be some morning lost (in the underground earth), who then can supply you with clear-flowing water?"