Rebuke of the arrogant and praise of the devout

Your God is one God. But the hearts of those who believe not in the life to come are filled with denial, and they are puffed up with pride.

Surely God knows what they hide and what they disclose. He certainly does not love the proud.

For when they are asked: "What has your Lord sent down?" they say: "Tales of long ago."

On the Day of Resurrection they will carry their own burden and some of the load of those they have led astray without any knowledge. Oh, how evil a burden they will carry!

Those who have gone before them had also conspired; then God uprooted their structure from its foundation; the roof fell over them from above, and punishment came upon them from somewhere they did not suspect.

On the Day of Resurrection He will disgrace them and ask: "Where are My compeers for whom you contended?" Those endowed with knowledge will say: "Shame and evil surely are for unbelievers today."

They whose souls are drawn out by the angels while they are sinning, shall offer submission: "We did no evil." But God knows well what you did.

So enter the gates of Hell, and dwell there for ever. How dreadful a dwelling for the haughty!

When those who took heed for themselves would be asked: "What did your Lord send down?" They will answer: "The best." For those who do good there is good in the world, but certainly the abode of the next is better. How excellent the home of the virtuous!

They will enter perennial gardens with streams of water and all they wish. Thus will the pious and devout be rewarded.

When the angels receive the souls of those who are blameless they will say: "Peace on you. Enter Paradise as recompense for what you did."

What! Do the (unbelievers) expect that the angels should descend, or the sentence of your Lord come to pass? So had the people done before them; yet God did not wrong them, they wronged themselves.

The evil they perpetrated overtook them, and what they mocked has turned upon them.

The idolaters say: "If God had willed we would not have worshipped anything apart from Him, nor would our fathers have done, nor would we have forbidden any thing without His (leave)." So had the people done before them. Therefore it is binding on the prophets to convey the message in clearest terms.