35:3O people! Remember God’s blessings upon you. Is there a creator other than God who provides for you from the heaven and the earth? There is no god but He. So how are you misled?

35:4If they reject you, messengers before you were also rejected. To God all matters are returned.

35:12The two seas are not the same. One is fresh, sweet, good to drink, while the other is salty and bitter. Yet from each you eat tender meat, and extract jewelry which you wear. And you see the ships plowing through them, so that you may seek of His bounty, so that you may give thanks.

35:15O people! It is you who are the poor, in need of God; while God is the Rich, the Praiseworthy.

35:18No burdened soul can carry the burden of another. Even if one weighted down calls for help with its burden, nothing can be lifted from it, even if they were related. You are to warn those who fear their Lord inwardly, and perform the prayer. He who purifies himself purifies himself for his own good. To God is the ultimate return.

35:19Not equal are the blind and the seeing.

35:20Nor are the darkness and the light.

35:21Nor are the shade and the torrid heat.

35:22Nor are equal the living and the dead. God causes whomever He wills to hear, but you cannot make those in the graves hear.

35:23You are only a warner.

35:24We sent you with the truth; a bearer of good news, and a warner. There is no community but a warner has passed through it.

35:27Have you not seen that God sends down water from the sky? With it We produce fruits of various colors. And in the mountains are streaks of white and red—varying in their hue—and pitch-black.

35:32Then We passed the Book to those of Our servants whom We chose. Some of them wrong their souls, and some follow a middle course, and some are in the foremost in good deeds by God’s leave; that is the greatest blessing.

35:40Say, “Have you considered those partners of yours that you worship instead of God? Show me what they have created on earth. Or do they have any share in the heavens?” Or have We given them a book whose clear teachings they follow? In fact, the wrongdoers promise one another nothing but delusions.