Meccan, 30 verses
In the name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
Blessed is the One that the kingdom is in His hands, and He is capable of everything.
The One Who created death and life to test which one of you does better work. And He is the powerful, the forgiving.
The One Who created seven skies one above the other (in layers). You do not see any inconsistency in the creation of the beneficent. So return the eye (to look again), do you see any cracks?
Then return the eye (to look) again and again, the eye returns to you confused and tired.
And We have certainly beautified the world's sky with lamps (stars), and We have made them meteorites for (throwing at) the devils, and We have prepared the punishment of burning fire for them.
And for those who disbelieve in their Lord is punishment of hell, and it is the bad destination.
When they are thrown in it, they hear howling from it while it boils.
It nearly blows up from the rage. Every time a group (of disbelievers) is thrown in it, its keepers ask them: “Did a warner not come to you?”
They say: “Yes, a warner did come to us, but we denied and we said: “God did not send down anything, you are only in a great error.””
And they (also) say: “If we had listened or had understood, we would not be among inhabitants of the burning fire.”
So they confess to their sin, and down with the inhabitants of the burning fire.
Those who are afraid of (disobeying) their Lord in secret (and without seeing Him), there will have forgiveness and a great reward.
Whether you hide your word or you disclose it, He knows what is inside the chests/minds.
Does He not know what He created? He is nice, well-informed.
He is the One Who made the earth tame for you, so walk in its tracts and eat of His provision. The resurrection (of everyone) is to Him.
Are you safe from the One in the sky that He would not make you sink in the earth when it suddenly shakes?
Or are you safe from the One in the sky that He would not send a sandstorm upon you? Then you are going to know how My warning is.
And those before them have certainly denied, so how was My rejection (and punishment)?
Or did they not look at the birds above them spreading (their) wings and folding them? What holds them except the beneficent? He sees everything.
Or who is the one who is an army for you and helps you, other than the beneficent? The disbelievers are only in deception.
Or who is the one who provides for you if He withholds His provision? No, but they insist on rebellion and unruliness.
Is someone who walks with his face downward (not seeing what is in front of him) better guided or someone who walks properly on a straight path?
Say: “He is the One Who created you and made hearing, sight, and hearts/intellect for you, but you thank a little.”
Say: “He is the One Who scattered you on the earth, and you will be gathered to Him.”
And they say: “When is this promise, if you are truthful?”
Say: “Knowledge of it (the Resurrection day) is only with God, and I am only to warn clearly.”
Then when they see it near, faces of those who disbelieved turn gloomy, and it is said: “This is what you used to call for.”
Say: “What do you think, whether God destroys me and those with me or He has mercy on us, who protects the disbelievers from a painful punishment?”
Say: “He is the beneficent, we believed in Him and we trust in Him, and you are going to know who is in obvious error.”
Say: “What do you think, if your water (sinks deep and) becomes dried up then who brings you (fresh) running water?”