PART 14

Al-Hijr

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.

[15:1]

Alif. Lam. Ra. These are verses of the Scripture and a plain Reading.

[15:2]

It may be that those who disbelieve wish ardently that they were Muslims.

[15:3]

Let them eat and enjoy life, and let (false) hope beguile them. They will come to know!

[15:4]

And We destroyed no township but there was a known decree for it.

[15:5]

No nation can outstrip its term nor can they lag behind.

[15:6]

And they say: O thou unto whom the Reminder is revealed, lo! thou art indeed a madman!

[15:7]

Why bringest thou not angels unto us, if thou art of the truthful ?

[15:8]

We send not down the angels save with the Fact, and in that case (the disbelievers) would not be tolerated.

[15:9]

Lo! We, even We, reveal the Reminder, and lo! We verily are its Guardian.

[15:10]

We verily sent (messengers) before thee among the factions of the men of old.

[15:11]

And never came there unto them a messenger but they did mock him.

[15:12]

Thus do We make it traverse the hearts of the guilty:

[15:13]

They believe not therein, though the example of the men of old hath gone before.

[15:14]

And even if We opened unto them a gate of heaven and they kept mounting through it,

[15:15]

They would say: Our sight is wrong - nay, but we are folk bewitched.