Sahih International — English — Al-Furqan

And [mention] the Day when the heaven will split open with [emerging] clouds, and the angels will be sent down in successive descent.

True sovereignty, that Day, is for the Most Merciful. And it will be upon the disbelievers a difficult Day.

And the Day the wrongdoer will bite on his hands [in regret] he will say, "Oh, I wish I had taken with the Messenger a way.

Oh, woe to me! I wish I had not taken that one as a friend.

He led me away from the remembrance after it had come to me. And ever is Satan, to man, a deserter."

And the Messenger has said, "O my Lord, indeed my people have taken this Qur'an as [a thing] abandoned."

And thus have We made for every prophet an enemy from among the criminals. But sufficient is your Lord as a guide and a helper.

And those who disbelieve say, "Why was the Qur'an not revealed to him all at once?" Thus [it is] that We may strengthen thereby your heart. And We have spaced it distinctly.

And they do not come to you with an argument except that We bring you the truth and the best explanation.

The ones who are gathered on their faces to Hell - those are the worst in position and farthest astray in [their] way.

And We had certainly given Moses the Scripture and appointed with him his brother Aaron as an assistant.

And We said, "Go both of you to the people who have denied Our signs." Then We destroyed them with [complete] destruction.

And the people of Noah - when they denied the messengers, We drowned them, and We made them for mankind a sign. And We have prepared for the wrongdoers a painful punishment.

And [We destroyed] 'Aad and Thamud and the companions of the well and many generations between them.

And for each We presented examples [as warnings], and each We destroyed with [total] destruction.

And they have already come upon the town which was showered with a rain of evil. So have they not seen it? But they are not expecting resurrection.

And when they see you, [O Muhammad], they take you not except in ridicule, [saying], "Is this the one whom Allah has sent as a messenger?

He almost would have misled us from our gods had we not been steadfast in [worship of] them." But they are going to know, when they see the punishment, who is farthest astray in [his] way.

Have you seen the one who takes as his god his own desire? Then would you be responsible for him?

Or do you think that most of them hear or reason? They are not except like livestock. Rather, they are [even] more astray in [their] way.

Have you not considered your Lord - how He extends the shadow, and if He willed, He could have made it stationary? Then We made the sun for it an indication.

Then We hold it in hand for a brief grasp.

And it is He who has made the night for you as clothing and sleep [a means for] rest and has made the day a resurrection.

And it is He who sends the winds as good tidings before His mercy, and We send down from the sky pure water