43:3We made it an Arabic Quran, so that you may understand.

43:5Shall We hold back the Reminder from you, since you are a transgressing people?

43:6How many a prophet did We send to the ancients?

43:8We destroyed people more powerful than they, and so the example of the ancients has passed away.

43:9And if you asked them, “Who created the heavens and the earth?” They would say, “The Mighty, the Knower created them.”

43:11He who sends down water from the sky in due proportion; and so We revive thereby a dead land. Thus you will be brought out.

43:13That you may mount their backs, and remember the favor of your Lord as you sit firmly upon them, and say, “Glory be to Him Who placed these at our service; surely we could not have done it by ourselves.

43:14And surely, to our Lord we will return.”

43:20And they say, “Had the Most Gracious willed, we would not have worshiped them.” But they have no knowledge of that; they are merely guessing.

43:21Or have We given them a book prior to this one, to which they adhere?

43:22But they say, “We found our parents on a course, and we are guided in their footsteps.”

43:23Likewise, We sent no warner before you to any town, but the wealthy among them said, “We found our parents on a course, and we are following in their footsteps.”

43:24He would say, “Even if I bring you better guidance than what you found your parents following?” They would say, “We reject what you are sent with.”

43:25So We wreaked vengeance upon them. Behold, then, what was the fate of those who deny.

43:30But when the truth came to them, they said, “This is sorcery, and we refuse to believe in it.”

43:32Is it they who allocate the mercy of your Lord? It is We who have allocated their livelihood in this life, and We elevated some of them in rank above others, that some of them would take others in service. But your Lord’s mercy is better than what they amass.

43:33Were it not that humanity would become a single community, We would have provided those who disbelieve in the Most Gracious with roofs of silver to their houses, and stairways by which they ascend.

43:36Whoever shuns the remembrance of the Most Gracious, We assign for him a devil, to be his companion.

43:38Until, when He comes to Us, he will say, “If only there were between me and you the distance of the two Easts.” What an evil companion!

43:41Even if We take you away, We will wreak vengeance upon them.

43:42Or show you what We have promised them; for We have absolute power over them.

43:45Ask those of Our messengers We sent before you: “Did We appoint gods besides the Most Gracious to be worshiped?”

43:46We sent Moses with Our revelations to Pharaoh and his dignitaries. He said, “I am the Messenger of the Lord of the Worlds.”

43:47But when he showed them Our signs, they started laughing at them.

43:48Each sign We showed them was more marvelous than its counterpart. And We afflicted them with the plagues, so that they may repent.

43:49They said, “O sorcerer, pray to your Lord for us, according to His pledge to you, and then we will be guided.”

43:50But when We lifted the torment from them, they immediately broke their promise.

43:54Thus he fooled his people, and they obeyed him. They were wicked people.

43:55And when they provoked Our wrath, We took retribution from them, and We drowned them all.

43:56Thus We made them a precedent and an example for the others.

43:59He was just a servant whom We blessed, and We made him an example for the Children of Israel.

43:60Had We willed, We would have made of you angels to be successors on earth.

43:69Those who believed in Our revelations, and were submissive.

43:76We did them no injustice, but it was they who were the unjust.

43:78We have given you the truth, but most of you hate the truth.

43:79Have they contrived some scheme? We too are contriving.

43:80Or do they think that We cannot hear their secrets and their conspiracies? Yes indeed, Our messengers are by them, writing down.

43:84It is He who is God in heaven, and God on earth. He is the Wise, the Knower.

43:85And blessed is He Who has sovereignty over the heavens and the earth and what is between them. He alone has knowledge of the Hour, and to Him you will be returned.