بِالبَيِّناتِ وَالزُّبُرِ ۗ وَأَنزَلنا إِلَيكَ الذِّكرَ لِتُبَيِّنَ لِلنّاسِ ما نُزِّلَ إِلَيهِم وَلَعَلَّهُم يَتَفَكَّرونَ

To you, We sent down the Message, providing clear instructions and sacred scriptures, so that you may clarify to people what was revealed to them, and that they may reflect.

أَفَأَمِنَ الَّذينَ مَكَرُوا السَّيِّئَاتِ أَن يَخسِفَ اللَّهُ بِهِمُ الأَرضَ أَو يَأتِيَهُمُ العَذابُ مِن حَيثُ لا يَشعُرونَ

Can those who devise evil plans really feel secure that God won’t cause the earth to swallow them, or that the punishment won’t come upon them whence they perceive not?

أَو يَأخُذَهُم في تَقَلُّبِهِم فَما هُم بِمُعجِزينَ

Or that He won’t catch them amidst their everyday activities, from which they can’t escape?

أَو يَأخُذَهُم عَلىٰ تَخَوُّفٍ فَإِنَّ رَبَّكُم لَرَءوفٌ رَحيمٌ

Or that He won’t take them in a state of fear? Your Lord is Kind and Merciful.

أَوَلَم يَرَوا إِلىٰ ما خَلَقَ اللَّهُ مِن شَيءٍ يَتَفَيَّأُ ظِلالُهُ عَنِ اليَمينِ وَالشَّمائِلِ سُجَّدًا لِلَّهِ وَهُم داخِرونَ

Don’t they see everything God created, how their shadows shift from the right and the left, all humbly submitting to God?

يَخافونَ رَبَّهُم مِن فَوقِهِم وَيَفعَلونَ ما يُؤمَرونَ ۩

They fear their Lord above them and do what they’re commanded.

وَقالَ اللَّهُ لا تَتَّخِذوا إِلـٰهَينِ اثنَينِ ۖ إِنَّما هُوَ إِلـٰهٌ واحِدٌ ۖ فَإِيّايَ فَارهَبونِ

God said, “Don’t take two gods. He is the One and Only God. Therefore, revere only Me.”

وَلَهُ ما فِي السَّماواتِ وَالأَرضِ وَلَهُ الدّينُ واصِبًا ۚ أَفَغَيرَ اللَّهِ تَتَّقونَ

Everything in the heavens and on earth is His, and unto Him is religion due perpetually. Would you fear anyone other than God?

وَما بِكُم مِن نِعمَةٍ فَمِنَ اللَّهِ ۖ ثُمَّ إِذا مَسَّكُمُ الضُّرُّ فَإِلَيهِ تَجأَرونَ

Whatever good comes to you, it’s from God. Yet when harm touches you, it’s unto Him that you cry out in distress.

ثُمَّ إِذا كَشَفَ الضُّرَّ عَنكُم إِذا فَريقٌ مِنكُم بِرَبِّهِم يُشرِكونَ

Yet, when He alleviates your suffering, some of you associate others with their Lord.