Ayat No. 01

الٓرٰ  تِلْكَ اٰیٰتُ الْكِتٰبِ وَ قُرْاٰنٍ مُّبِیْنٍ(۱)

Translation

Alif, Lam, Ra. These are the verses of the Book and a clear Qur'an.

Ayat No. 02

رُبَمَا یَوَدُّ الَّذِیْنَ كَفَرُوْا لَوْ كَانُوْا مُسْلِمِیْنَ(۲)

Translation

Perhaps those who disbelieve will wish that they had been Muslims.

Ayat No. 03

ذَرْهُمْ یَاْكُلُوْا وَ یَتَمَتَّعُوْا وَ یُلْهِهِمُ الْاَمَلُ فَسَوْفَ یَعْلَمُوْنَ(۳)

Translation

Let them eat and enjoy themselves and be diverted by [false] hope, for they are going to know.

Ayat No. 04

وَ مَاۤ اَهْلَكْنَا مِنْ قَرْیَةٍ اِلَّا وَ لَهَا كِتَابٌ مَّعْلُوْمٌ(۴)

Translation

And We did not destroy any city but that for it was a known decree.

Ayat No. 05

مَا تَسْبِقُ مِنْ اُمَّةٍ اَجَلَهَا وَ مَا یَسْتَاْخِرُوْنَ(۵)

Translation

No nation will precede its term, nor will they remain thereafter.

Ayat No. 06

وَ قَالُوْا یٰۤاَیُّهَا الَّذِیْ نُزِّلَ عَلَیْهِ الذِّكْرُ اِنَّكَ لَمَجْنُوْنٌؕ(۶)

Translation

And they say,"O you upon whom the message has been sent down, indeed you are mad.

Ayat No. 07

لَوْ مَا تَاْتِیْنَا بِالْمَلٰٓىٕكَةِ اِنْ كُنْتَ مِنَ الصّٰدِقِیْنَ(۷)

Translation

Why do you not bring us the angels, if you should be among the truthful?"

Ayat No. 08

مَا نُنَزِّلُ الْمَلٰٓىٕكَةَ اِلَّا بِالْحَقِّ وَ مَا كَانُوْۤا اِذًا مُّنْظَرِیْنَ(۸)

Translation

We do not send down the angels except with truth; and the disbelievers would not then be reprieved.

Ayat No. 09

اِنَّا نَحْنُ نَزَّلْنَا الذِّكْرَ وَ اِنَّا لَهٗ لَحٰفِظُوْنَ(۹)

Translation

Indeed, it is We who sent down the Qur'an and indeed, We will be its guardian.

Ayat No. 10

وَ لَقَدْ اَرْسَلْنَا مِنْ قَبْلِكَ فِیْ شِیَعِ الْاَوَّلِیْنَ(۱۰)

Translation

And We had certainly sent [messengers] before you, [O Muhammad], among the sects of the former peoples.

Ayat No. 11

وَ مَا یَاْتِیْهِمْ مِّنْ رَّسُوْلٍ اِلَّا كَانُوْا بِهٖ یَسْتَهْزِءُوْنَ(۱۱)

Translation

And no messenger would come to them except that they ridiculed him.

Ayat No. 12

كَذٰلِكَ نَسْلُكُهٗ فِیْ قُلُوْبِ الْمُجْرِمِیْنَۙ(۱۲)

Translation

Thus do We insert denial into the hearts of the criminals.

Ayat No. 13

لَا یُؤْمِنُوْنَ بِهٖ وَ قَدْ خَلَتْ سُنَّةُ الْاَوَّلِیْنَ(۱۳)

Translation

They will not believe in it, while there has already occurred the precedent of the former peoples.

Ayat No. 14

وَ لَوْ فَتَحْنَا عَلَیْهِمْ بَابًا مِّنَ السَّمَآءِ فَظَلُّوْا فِیْهِ یَعْرُجُوْنَۙ(۱۴)

Translation

And [even] if We opened to them a gate from the heaven and they continued therein to ascend,

Ayat No. 15

لَقَالُوْۤا اِنَّمَا سُكِّرَتْ اَبْصَارُنَا بَلْ نَحْنُ قَوْمٌ مَّسْحُوْرُوْنَ۠(۱۵)

Translation

They would say, "Our eyes have only been dazzled. Rather, we are a people affected by magic."