I did not call them to witness the creation of the heavens and the earth, nor their own creation; and I do not take the misleaders for assistants.
On the Day when He will say, "Call on My partners whom you have claimed." They will call on them, but they will not answer them. And We will place between them a barrier.
And the sinners will see the Fire, and will realize that they will tumble into it. They will find no deliverance from it.
We have elaborated in this Quran for the people every kind of example, but the human being is a most argumentative being.
What prevented people from accepting faith, when guidance has come to them, and from seeking their Lord's forgiveness? Unless they are waiting for the precedent of the ancients to befall them, or to have the punishment come upon them face to face.
We send the messengers only as deliverers of good news and warners. Those who disbelieve argue with false argument, in order to defeat the truth thereby. They take My Verses, and the warnings, for a joke.
Who does greater wrong than he, who, when reminded of his Lord's revelations, turns away from them, and forgets what his hands have put forward? We have placed coverings over their hearts, lest they understand it, and heaviness in their ears. And if you call them to guidance, they will not be guided, ever.
Your Lord is the Forgiver, Possessor of Mercy. Were He to call them to account for what they have earned, He would have hastened the punishment for them. But they have an appointment from which they will find no escape.
And these towns—We destroyed them when they committed injustices, and We set for their destruction an appointed time.
Recall when Moses said to his servant, "I will not give up until I reach the junction of the two rivers, even if it takes me years."
