If they see a sign, they turn away, and say, ‘An incessant magic!’

They denied and followed their own desires, and every matter has a setting [appropriate to it].

There have already come to them reports containing admonishment,

[and representing] far-reaching wisdom; but warnings are of no avail!

So turn away from them! The day when the Caller calls to a dire thing,

they will emerge from the graves as if they were scattered locusts with a humbled look [in their eyes],

scrambling toward the summoner. The faithless will say, ‘This is a hard day!’

The people of Noah impugned before them. So they impugned Our servant and said, ‘A crazy man,’ and he was reviled.

Thereat he invoked his Lord, [saying,] ‘I have been overcome, so help [me].’

Then We opened the gates of the sky with pouring waters,

and We made the earth burst forth with springs, and the waters met for a preordained purpose.

We bore him on a vessel made of planks and nails,

which sailed [over the flood waters] in Our sight, as a retribution for him who was met with disbelief.

Certainly We have left it as a sign; so is there anyone who will be admonished?

So how were My punishment and warnings?

Certainly We have made the Quran simple for the sake of admonishment. So is there anyone who will be admonished?

[The people of] ‘Ad impugned [their apostle]. So how were My punishment and warnings?

Indeed We unleashed upon them an icy gale on an incessantly ill-fated day,

knocking down people as if they were trunks of uprooted palm trees.

So how were My punishment and warnings?!

Certainly We have made the Quran simple for the sake of admonishment. So is there anyone who will be admonished?

[The people of] Thamud denied the warnings,

and they said, ‘Are we to follow a lone human from ourselves?! Indeed then we would be in error and madness.’

‘Has the Reminder been cast upon him from among us? No, he is a self-conceited liar.’

‘Tomorrow they will know who is a self-conceited liar.

We are sending the She-camel as a trial for them; so watch them and be steadfast.

Inform them that the water is to be shared between them; each of them showing up at his turn.’

But they called their companion, and he took [a knife] and hamstrung [her].

So how were My punishment and My warnings?!

We sent against them a single Cry, and they became like the dry sticks of a corral builder.

Certainly We have made the Quran simple for the sake of admonishment. So is there anyone who will be admonished?

And the people of Lot denied the warnings.

We unleashed upon them a rain of stones, excepting the family of Lot, whom We delivered at dawn

as a blessing from Us. Thus do We reward those who give thanks.

He had already warned them of Our punishment, but they disputed the warnings.

They even solicited of him his guests, whereat We blotted out their eyes, [saying,] ‘Taste My punishment and My warnings!’

Early at dawn there visited them an abiding punishment:

‘Taste My punishment and warnings!’

Certainly We have made the Quran simple for the sake of admonishment. So is there anyone who will be admonished?

Certainly the warnings did come to Pharaoh’s clan

who denied all of Our signs. So We seized them with the seizing of One [who is] all-mighty, Omnipotent.

Are your faithless better than those? Have you [been granted] [some sort of] immunity in the scriptures?

Do they say, ‘We are a confederate league’?

The league will be routed and turn its back [to flee].

Indeed, the Hour is their tryst; and the Hour will be most calamitous and bitter.

Indeed the guilty are steeped in error and madness.

The day when they are dragged on their faces into the Fire, [it will be said to them,] ‘Taste the touch of hell!’

Indeed We have created everything in a measure,

and Our command is but a single [word], like the twinkling of an eye.

Certainly We have destroyed your likes. So is there anyone who will be admonished?

Everything they have done is in the books,

and everything big and small is committed to writing.

Indeed the Godwary will be amid gardens and streams,