And when their eyes are turned towards the inmates of the Fire, they shall say, “O our Lord! place us not with the offending people.”

And they who are upon Al Araf shall cry to those whom they shall know by their tokens, “Your amassings and your pride have availed you nothing.

Are these they on whom ye sware God would not bestow mercy?  Enter ye11 into Paradise! where no fear shall be upon you, neither shall ye be put to grief.”

And the inmates of the fire shall cry to the inmates of Paradise:  “Pour upon us some water, or of the refreshments12 God hath given you?” They shall say, “Truly God hath forbidden both to unbelievers,

Who made their religion a sport and pastime, and whom the life of the world hath deceived.”  This day therefore will we forget them, as they forgot the meeting of this their day, and as they did deny our signs.

And now have we brought them the Book:  with knowledge have we explained it; a guidance and a mercy to them that believe.

What have they to wait for now but its interpretation?  When its interpretation13 shall come, they who aforetime were oblivious of it shall say, “The Prophets of our Lord did indeed bring the truth; shall we have any intercessor to intercede for us? or could we not be sent back?  Then would we act otherwise than we have acted.”  But they have ruined themselves; and the deities of their own devising have fled from them!

Your Lord is God, who in six days created the Heavens and the Earth, and then mounted the throne:  He throweth the veil of night over the day:  it pursueth it swiftly:  and he created the sun and the moon and the stars, subjected to laws by His behest:  Is not all creation and its empire His?  Blessed be God the Lord of the Worlds!

Call upon your Lord with lowliness and in secret, for He loveth not transgressors.

And commit not disorders on the earth after it hath been well ordered; and call on Him with fear and longing desire:  Verily the mercy of God is nigh unto the righteous.

And He it is who sendeth forth the winds as the heralds of his compassion,14 until they bring up the laden clouds, which we drive along to some dead land and send down water thereon, by which we cause an upgrowth of all kinds of fruit.-Thus will we bring forth the dead.  Haply ye will reflect.

In a rich soil, its plants spring forth abundantly by the will of its Lord, and in that which is bad, they spring forth but scantily.  Thus do We diversify our signs for those who are thankful.

Of old sent We Noah to his people,15 and he said, “O my people! worship God.  Ye have no God but Him:  indeed I fear for you the chastisement of the great day.”

The chiefs of his people said, “We clearly see that thou art in a palpable error.”

He said, “There is no error in me, O my people! but I am a messenger from the Lord of the Worlds.

I bring to you the messages of my Lord, and I give you friendly counsel; for I know from God what ye know not.