Signs of Allah's oneness and power

We have not created the heavens and the earth, and all that lies between them, out of fun.

If We had pleased to make a plaything We could have made it Ourself, if We had cared to do so.

In fact We strike the truth against the false, which shatters it, and it disappears. Woe to you for what you attribute (to Him)!

Whosoever is in the heavens and the earth belongs to Him; and those who are near Him do not disdain to worship Him or weary (of His service),

Nor cease to endeavour praising Him night and day.

Or have they taken gods from the earth who can raise the dead?

Had there been gods apart from God, both (the heavens and the earth) would have been despoiled. Much too glorious is God, the Lord of the mighty throne, for things they assert!

He cannot be questioned about what He does, but they will be questioned.

Have they taken gods besides God? Say: "Then bring your proof. Here is the Book of those who are with me, and the Book of those who have gone before me." But most men do not know the truth and turn away.

We have not sent an apostle before you without instructing him that there is no god but I, so worship Me.

And yet they say: "Ar-Rahman has begotten a son." Too exalted is He! In fact, those (they call His sons) were His honoured votaries.

They did not precede Him in their speech, and acted on His command.

He knows what was there before them and what came after them; and they did not intercede for any one but whom He willed, and they were filled with awe of Him.

If any one of them said: "I am God besides Him," We should award him Hell; for this is how We requite the evil-doers.

Do not these unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were an integrated mass, then We split them and made every living thing from water? Will they not believe even then?

We placed stabilisers in the earth so that as it revolved with them you lived undisturbed; and We provided passageways between them so that men may find their way;

And We made the sky a well-protected roof. Still they turn away from His signs!

It is He who created night and day, the sun and the moon, revolving on its orbit.