الحجر

Alif, Lam, Ra. These are the verses of the Book and a clear Qur'an. ^[1]

Perhaps those who disbelieve will wish that they had been Muslims. ^[2]

Let them eat and enjoy themselves and be diverted by [false] hope, for they are going to know. ^[3]

And We did not destroy any city but that for it was a known decree. ^[4]

No nation will precede its term, nor will they remain thereafter. ^[5]

And they say, "O you upon whom the message has been sent down, indeed you are mad. ^[6]

Why do you not bring us the angels, if you should be among the truthful?" ^[7]

We do not send down the angels except with truth; and the disbelievers would not then be reprieved. ^[8]

Indeed, it is We who sent down the Qur'an and indeed, We will be its guardian. ^[9]

And We had certainly sent [messengers] before you, [O Muhammad], among the sects of the former peoples. ^[10]

And no messenger would come to them except that they ridiculed him. ^[11]

Thus do We insert denial into the hearts of the criminals. ^[12]

They will not believe in it, while there has already occurred the precedent of the former peoples. ^[13]

And [even] if We opened to them a gate from the heaven and they continued therein to ascend, ^[14]

They would say, "Our eyes have only been dazzled. Rather, we are a people affected by magic." ^[15]

And We have placed within the heaven great stars and have beautified it for the observers. ^[16]

And We have protected it from every devil expelled [from the mercy of Allah] ^[17]

Except one who steals a hearing and is pursued by a clear burning flame. ^[18]

And the earth - We have spread it and cast therein firmly set mountains and caused to grow therein [something] of every well-balanced thing. ^[19]

And We have made for you therein means of living and [for] those for whom you are not providers. ^[20]