[17:8]

It may be that your Lord will have mercy on you, but if ye repeat (the crime) We shall repeat (the punishment), and We have appointed hell a dungeon for the disbelievers.

[17:9]

Lo! this Qur’an guideth unto that which is straightest, and giveth tidings unto the believers who do good works that theirs will be a great reward.

[17:10]

And that those who believe not in the Hereafter, for them We have prepared a painful doom.

[17:11]

Man prayeth for evil as he prayeth for good; for man was ever hasty.

[17:12]

And We appoint the night and the day two portents. Then We make dark the portent of the night, and We make the portent of the day sight- giving, that ye may seek bounty from your Lord, and that ye may know the computation of the years, and the reckoning; and everything have We expounded with a clear expounding.

[17:13]

And every man’s augury have We fastened to his own neck, and We shall bring forth for him on the Day of Resurrection a book which he will find wide open.

[17:14]

(And it will be said unto him): Read thy Book. Thy soul sufficeth as reckoner against thee this day.

[17:15]

Whosoever goeth right, it is only for (the good of) his own soul that he goeth right, and whosoever erreth, erreth only to its hurt. No laden soul can bear another’s load, We never punish until we have sent a messenger.

[17:16]

And when We would destroy a township We send commandment to its folk who live at ease, and afterward they commit abomination therein, and so the Word (of doom) hath effect for it, and we annihilate it with complete annihilation.

[17:17]

How many generations have We destroyed since Noah! And Allah sufficeth as Knower and Beholder of the sins of His slaves.