Quran Surah 46 - Al-Ahqaf (The Sandhills)
Ayat 1 - HA MIM.
Ayat 2 - The revelation of this Book is from God, the
mighty and all-wise.
Ayat 3 - We have not created the heavens and the
earth and all that lies between them but with a purpose for an appointed time. Yet the unbelievers turn away from the warning.
Ayat 4 - Say: "Have you thought of those you invoke
apart from God? Show me what they have created of the earth, or, do they have a share in the heavens? Bring me an earlier Book
than this, or inherited knowledge, if you are truthful."
Ayat 5 - Who is more astray than he who calls on
those, apart from God, who cannot answer their prayers till the Day of Resurrection, and are even unaware of being called.
Ayat 6 - When all men are gathered together (on that
Day) they will become their enemies and deny their worship.
Ayat 7 - When Our clear revelations are read out to
them, the infidels say of the truth, when it has come to them: "This is pure magic."
Ayat 8 - Do they say: "He has fabricated it?" Tell
them: "If I have fabricated it, you have no power to save me from God. He knows what you are busy with concerning this. He is
sufficient as witness between you and me; yet He is forgiving, ever-merciful."
Ayat 9 - Say: "I am not a new Messenger to come, nor
do I know what is to be done to me or you. I only follow what is revealed to me. My duty is only to warn you clearly."
Ayat 10 - Tell them: "Think (of the consequence) if
this is from God and you deny it when a witness from the people of Israel had testified to the like of it and come to believe,
while you spurn it?" Assuredly God does not guide a wicked people.
Ayat 11 - Those who deny say of those who believe:
"Had there been any good in it they would not have preceded us in coming to it." Since they have not taken guidance from it,
they will say: "This is the same old lie."
Ayat 12 - There was the Book of Moses before this, a
guide and a mercy; and here is this Book confirming it in lucid language, warning those who are wicked, and giving happy
tidings to the righteous.
Ayat 13 - Surely for those who say, "God is our
Lord," and then remain firm, there is no fear or regret.
Ayat 14 - They are men of Paradise where they will
abide for ever as a recompense for what they had done.
Ayat 15 - We have enjoined on man to be good to his
parents: His mother carries him in her womb with hardship, and gives birth to him in pain. Thirty months is the period of her
carrying and weaning him. When he attains to manhood and the age of forty, he says: "O Lord, guide me to thank You for the
favours You have bestowed on me and my parents, and to do things good as may please You, and give me a righteous off-spring. I
turn to You in penitence and submit."
Ayat 16 - They are those from whom We accept the very
best of what they have done, and overlook their faults. They will be among the inmates of Paradise: A true promise they have
been made.
Ayat 17 - But he who says to his parents: "Shame on
you: You intimidate me that I will be resurrected when many generations will have passed before me?" And (the parents) would
implore God´s help: "Woe to you. You better believe. The promise of God is certainly true." Yet he answers: "These are only
fables of long ago."
Ayat 18 - They are those on whom the sentence of God
would be justified as on communities of jinns and men before them. They will surely perish.
Ayat 19 - Each will have a position in accordance
with his deeds; and no wrong will be done to them.
Ayat 20 - The day the unbelievers are brought to the
Fire, (it will be said): "You wasted all your good deeds in the life of the world, and enjoyed them to the full. You will now
be requited with a shameful punishment, for you behaved with arrogance for no reason on the earth, and acted wickedly."
Ayat 21 - Remember (Hud) the brother of ´Ad. When he
warned his people in Ahqaf -- though many a warner had come and gone before and after him: "Do not worship any one but God,
for I fear the punishment of an awful day for you,"
Ayat 22 - They said: "Have you come to turn us away
from our gods? Then bring upon us what you predict for us, if you are a man of truth."
Ayat 23 - He said: "Only God has the knowledge. I
only convey to you what I have been sent with. But I see you are a foolish people."
Ayat 24 - So when they saw it as a cloud advancing
towards their valleys, they said: "This is just a passing cloud that will bring us rain." "No. It is what you were trying to
hasten: The wind which carries the grievous punishment!
Ayat 25 - It will destroy everything at the bidding
of its Lord." So in the morning there was nothing but their empty dwellings to be seen. That is how We requite the sinners.
Ayat 26 - We had strengthened them as We have not
strengthened you, had given them ears and eyes and hearts; but nothing stood them in good stead, neither their ears nor eyes
nor hearts, for they rejected the signs of God, and were seized by what they had mocked.
Ayat 27 - We have destroyed habitations all around
you, having explained Our signs in different ways to them that they may turn back.
Ayat 28 - Why then did the gods they had taken apart
from God as propitiators, not come to their aid? In fact they strayed away from them. It was all a lie what they had contrived!
Ayat 29 - And (remember), when We turned a company of
jinns towards you to listen to the Qur´an, they arrived when it was being recited, and they said: "Keep silent." When it was
over they came back to their people, warning them:
Ayat 30 - "O our people:" they said: "we have
listened to a Book which has come down after Moses, confirming what was (sent down) before it, showing the way to the truth and
a path that is straight.
Ayat 31 - O our people, hearken to the summoner of
God, and believe in him, so that He may forgive you your sins and save you from a painful doom.
Ayat 32 - He who does not listen to the summoner of
God cannot weaken (the power of) God on earth, nor will he have protectors other than Him. They are clearly in the wrong."
Ayat 33 - Do they not realise that God who created
the heavens and the earth, and did not tire creating them, is able to bring the dead to life? And why not? He has the power
over everything.
Ayat 34 - The day the unbelievers will be stood
before the Fire, (they will be asked:) "Is this not the reality?" They will answer: "In truth, by our Lord!" It will be
said: "Then taste the torment of what you had denied."
Ayat 35 - So bear with patience, as the apostles who
were constant, bore; and do not be hasty (in demanding punishment) for them. On the day they see what they had been foretold,
(they will realise) that they did not stay in the world but only an hour of the day. This is the message to be conveyed: Shall
any perish but the ungodly?