People's reckoning approaches, while they are heedlessly exposed. No remembrance of their Lord comes to them but they listen to it while they are playing. Their hearts are distracted. And secret secrets to those who did wrong, is this any but a human being like you? Do you produce magic, while ye perceive?

He said, "My Lord knows the word in heaven and earth." And He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing. Rather, they said, 'Deceitful dreams'; It did not believe before them from a village that they destroyed. I understand they believe.

And We did not send before you but men to whom We revealed. So ask the people of the Remembrance if you do not know. And We did not make them a body that did not eat food, and they were not immortal. Then they believed the promise, so We saved them and whomever We had created, and We destroyed the wasteful. We have sent down to you books in which we have mentioned you: will you not understand?

And how often We divided a village that was unjust, and after that We raised another people. So when they felt our pain, they ran from it. Do not run, and go back to what you used to enjoy and dwell in, that you may be questioned. They said: Woe to us! We were unjust. This is still their...