(43:1) Ha'. Mim. (43:2) By the Clear Book; (43:3) verily We have made it an Arabic Qur'an that you may understand. (43:4) Indeed it is transcribed in the Original Book with Us; sublime and full of wisdom. (43:5) Should We divert this Good Counsel from you because you are a people immersed in extravagance? (43:6) How many a Prophet did We send to the earlier peoples! (43:7) Yet never did a Prophet come to them but they mocked him. (43:8) We utterly destroyed them although they were greater in might than these. The examples of ancient peoples have gone before. (43:9) Yet if you were to ask them: “Who created the heavens and the earth?” they will certainly say: “The All-Mighty, the All-Knowing has created them.” (43:10) He it is Who made this earth for you a cradle and made in it pathways for you that you may find the way to your destination; (43:11) He Who sent down water from the sky in a determined measure, and thereby We revived a dead land: likewise will you be raised up (from the earth) (43:12) He Who created these pairs, all of them, and provided you ships and cattle on which you ride, (43:13) so that when you are mounted upon them you may remember the bounty of your Lord, and say: “Glory be to Him Who has subjected this to Us whereas we did not have the strength to subdue it. (43:14) It is to our Lord that we shall eventually return.” (43:15) Yet they have made some of His servants a part of Him. Indeed man is most evidently thankless. (43:16) Has Allah taken for Himself daughters out of those whom He creates and has chosen you to have sons? (43:17) (They believe so although when) any of them is given tidings of the birth of a female child the like of which he assigns to the Merciful One, his countenance darkens and he is choked with grief. (43:18) Do they assign to Allah one who grows up amidst ornaments and is not well-versed in the art of disputation? (43:19) They claim that angels, who are Allah's chosen servants, are females. Did they witness how their body is constituted? Their testimony shall be written and they shall be called to account. (43:20) They say: “Had the Merciful One so willed, we would never have worshipped these deities.” But they have no knowledge of the matter and are simply conjecturing. (43:21) Or did We bestow upon them a Book before on whose authority they are holding on (to angel-worship)? (43:22) Nay; they simply claim: “We found our forefathers on a way, and we continue to find guidance in their footsteps.” (43:23) And thus it is: whenever We sent any warner to a city its affluent ones said: “We found our forefathers on a way and we continue to follow in their footsteps.” (43:24) Each Prophet asked them: “Will you do so even if we were to show you a way better than the way of your forefathers?” They answered: “We disbelieve in the religion with which you have been sent.” (43:25) Then We exacted retribution from them. So do consider the end of those who gave the lie (to the Prophets).....
