[68:43]

With eyes downcast, abasement stupefying them. And they had been summoned to prostrate themselves while they were yet unhurt.

[68:44]

Leave Me (to deal) with those who give the lie to this pronouncement. We shall lead them on by steps from whence they know not.

[68:45]

Yet I bear with them, for lo! My scheme is firm

[68:46]

Or dost thou (Muhammad) ask a fee from them so that they are heavily taxed ?

[68:47]

Or is the Unseen theirs that they can write (thereof) ?

[68:48]

But wait thou for thy Lord’s decree, and be not like him of the fish, who cried out in despair.

[68:49]

Had it not been that favour from his Lord had reached him he surely had been cast into the wilderness while he was reprobate.

[68:50]

But his Lord chose him and placed him among the righteous.

[68:51]

And lo! those who disbelieve would fain disconcert thee with their eyes when they hear the Reminder, and they say: Lo! he is indeed mad;

[68:52]

When it is naught else than a Reminder to creation.

The Reality

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

[69:1]

The Reality!

[69:2]

What is the Reality ?

[69:3]

Ah, what will convey unto thee what the reality is!

[69:4]

(The tribes of) Thamud and A’ad disbelieved in the judgment to come.

[69:5]

As for Thamud, they were destroyed by the lightning.

[69:6]

And as for A’ad, they were destroyed by a fierce roaring wind,

[69:7]

Which He imposed on them for seven long nights and eight long days so that thou mightest have seen men lying overthrown, as they were hollow trunks of palm-trees.

[69:8]

Canst thou (O Muhammad) see any remnant of them ?