Sura 21 The Prophets (Al-Anbiya)

In the name of God, the Almighty, the Merciful.

[21:1] The people's reckoning has drawn near while they are in obliviousness turning away.

[21:2] No new Reminder comes to them from their Lord without them listening to it playfully,

[21:3] and with their hearts distracted. The transgressors confer secretly: "Is this anything other than a human being like you? Would you approach magic while you can see?"

[21:4] He said, "My Lord knows what is spoken in the heaven and the earth. He is the Hearer, the Knowledgeable."

[21:5] But they said, "Muddled dreams! Rather, he fabricated it! Rather, he is a poet! So let him bring us a miracle like what was sent to the earlier ones."

[21:6] None of the villages We annihilated before them believed, so will they believe?

[21:7] We did not send before you except men whom We inspired, so ask the people of the Reminder if you do not know.

[21:8] We did not make them with bodies that did not eat food, nor were they immortal.

[21:9] Then We fulfilled the promise to them whereby We saved them together with whom We willed and annihilated the excessive ones.

[21:10] We have brought down to you a Book in which is your Reminder. So will you not reason?

[21:11] How many a village did We destroy that was transgressing and We brought about other people after it?

[21:12] Then, when they felt Our might, they started running away from it.

[21:13] "Do not run! Come back to the luxuries you were immersed in and to your homes so that you may be questioned."

[21:14] They said, "Woe to us! We have been transgressors."

[21:15] This continued to be their cry until We made them like a burnt down harvest.

[21:16] We did not create the heaven and the earth and what is between them for mere play.

[21:17] Had We desired to have some amusement, We would have derived it from that which is Our own, if We were so to do.

[21:18] Rather, We cast the truth upon the falsehood, which shatters it, and so it perishes. Woe to you for what you portray!