[25:3]
Yet they choose beside Him other gods who create
naught but are themselves created, and possess not hurt nor profit for
themselves, and possess not death nor life, nor power to raise the dead.
[25:4]
Those who disbelieve say: This is naught but a
lie that he hath invented, and other folk have helped him with it, so that they
have produced a slander and a lie.
[25:5]
And they say: Fables of the men of old which he
hath had written down so that they are dictated to him morn and evening.
[25:6]
Say (unto them, O Muhammad): He who knoweth the secret
of the heavens and the earth hath revealed it. Lo! He ever is Forgiving,
Merciful.
[25:7]
And they say: What aileth this messenger (of
Allah) that he eateth food and walketh in the markets ?
Why is not an angel sent down unto him, to be a warner with him.
[25:8]
Or (why is not) treasure thrown down unto him,
or why hath he not a paradise from whence to eat ? And
the evil-doers say: Ye are but following a man bewitched.
[25:9]
See how they coin similitudes for thee, so that
they are all astray and cannot find a road!
[25:10]
Blessed is He Who, if
He will, will assign thee better than (all) that - Gardens underneath which
rivers flow - and will assign thee mansions.
[25:11]
Nay, but they deny (the coming of) the Hour, and
for those who deny (the coming of) the Hour We have
prepared a flame.