How many a town (community), given to wrong-doing, have We destroyed, and raised up after them another people! (11) Then, when they perceived (saw) Our Torment (coming), behold, they (tried to) flee from it. (12) Flee not, but return to that wherein you lived a luxurious life, and to your homes, in order that you may be questioned. (13) They cried: "Woe to us! Certainly! We have been Zâlimûn (polytheists, wrong-doers and disbelievers in the Oneness of Allâh)." (14) And that cry of theirs ceased not, till We made them as a field that is reaped, extinct (dead). (15) We created not the heavens and the earth and all that is between them for a (mere) play[]. (16) Had We intended to take a pastime (i.e. a wife or a son), We could surely have taken it from Us, if We were going to do (that). (17) Nay, We fling (send down) the truth (this Qur'ân) against the falsehood (disbelief), so it destroys it, and behold, it (falsehood) is vanished. And woe to you for that (lie) which you ascribe (to Allâh by uttering that Allâh has a wife and a son). (18) To Him belongs whosoever is in the heavens and on earth. And those who are near Him (i.e. the angels) are not too proud to worship Him, nor are they weary (of His worship). (19) They (i.e. the angels) glorify His Praises night and day, (and) they never slacken (to do so) (20) Or have they taken (for worship) âlihah (gods) from the earth who raise the dead? (21) Had there been therein (in the heavens and the earth) âlihah (gods) besides Allâh, then verily both would have been ruined. Glorified is Allâh, the Lord of the Throne, (High is He) above all that they attribute to Him! (22) He cannot be questioned as to what He does, while they will be questioned. (23) Or have they taken for worship (other) âlihah (gods) besides Him? Say: "Bring your proof:" This (the Qur'ân) is the Reminder for those with me and the Reminder for those before me. But most of them know not the Truth, so they are averse. (24)