54 Among the infidels are those who have repudiated His Self and risen up against His Cause, and who claim that these divine verses are contrived.  Such also were the objections of the deniers of old, who now implore deliverance from the Fire.  Say:  Woe betide you for the idle words that proceed from your mouths!  If these verses be indeed contrived, then by what proof have ye believed in God?  Produce it, if ye be men of understanding!  Whensoever We revealed Our clear verses unto such men, they rejected them, and whensoever they beheld that which the combined forces of the earth are powerless to produce, they pronounced it sorcery.

55 What aileth this people that they speak of that which they understand not?  They raise the same objections as did the followers of the Qur’an when their Lord came unto them with His Cause.  They, verily, are a rejected people.  They hindered others from appearing before Him Who is the Ancient Beauty, and from sharing the bread of His loved ones.  “Approach them not,” one was even heard to say, “for they cast a spell upon the people and lead them astray from the path of God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.”  By the righteousness of the one true God!  He who is incapable of speaking in Our presence hath uttered such words as none among the former generations hath ever spoken, and hath committed such acts as none of the unbelievers of bygone ages hath ever committed.

56 The very words and deeds of these men bear eloquent testimony to the truth of My words, if ye be of them that judge with fairness.  Whosoever attributeth the verses of God to sorcery hath not believed in any of His Messengers, hath lived and laboured in vain, and is accounted of those who speak that of which they have no knowledge.  Say:  O servant!  Fear God, thy Creator and thy Fashioner, and transgress not against Him, but judge with fairness and act with justice.  Those whom the Lord hath endued with knowledge shall find, in the very objections raised by the unbelievers, conclusive proofs to invalidate their claims and vindicate the truth of this manifest Light.  Say:  Would ye repeat that which the unbelievers uttered when a Message came unto them from their Lord?  Woe betide you, O assemblage of foolish ones, and blighted be your works!

57 O Ancient Beauty!  Turn aside from the unbelievers and that which they possess, and waft over all created things the sweet savours of the remembrance of Thy Beloved, the Exalted, the Great.  This remembrance quickeneth the world of being and reneweth the temples of all created things.  Say:  He, verily, hath established Himself upon the Throne of might and glory.  Whosoever desireth to gaze upon His countenance, lo, behold Him standing before thee!  Blessed be the Lord Who hath revealed Himself in this shining and luminous Beauty.  Whosoever desireth to hearken unto His melodies, lo, hear them rising from His resplendent and wondrous lips!  And unto whosoever desireth to be illumined by the splendours of His light, say:  Seek the court of His presence, for God hath verily granted you leave to approach it, as a token of His grace unto all mankind.