[17:97]
And he whom Allah guideth, he is led aright;
while, as for him whom He sendeth astray, for them thou wilt find no protecting
friends beside Him, and We shall assemble them on the Day of Resurrection on
their faces, blind, dumb and deaf; their habitation will be hell; whenever it
abateth, We increase the flame for them.
[17:98]
That is their reward because they disbelieved
Our revelations and said: When we are bones and fragments shall we, forsooth,
be raised up as a new creation ?
[17:99]
Have they not seen that Allah Who created the
heavens and the earth is Able to create the like of them, and hath appointed
for them an end whereof there is no doubt ? But the
wrong-doers refuse aught save disbelief.
[17:100]
Say (unto them): If ye possessed the treasures
of the mercy of my Lord, ye would surely hold them back for fear of spending,
for man was ever grudging.
[17:101]
And verily We gave unto
Moses nine tokens, clear proofs (of Allah’s Sovereignty). Do but ask the
Children of
[17:102]
He said: In truth thou knowest that none sent
down these (portents) save the Lord of the heavens and the earth as proofs, and
lo! (for my part) I deem thee lost, O Pharaoh.
[17:103]
And he wished to scare them from the land, but
We drowned him and those with him, all together.
[17:104]
And We said unto the Children of Israel after
him: Dwell in the land; but when the promise of the Hereafter cometh to pass We
shall bring you as a crowd gathered out of various nations.