or any other creation yet more monstrous in your minds. ' They will ask: 'Who will restore us? ' Say: 'He who originated you at first. ' They will shake their heads and ask: 'When will this be? ' Say: 'Maybe it is near, (51)

on that Day, He will summon you, and you shall answer Him with praise and you shall think you have stayed but for a little. ' (52)

Tell My worshipers, that they should say words that are the finest, satan would arouse discord among them; he is the clear enemy of mankind. (53)

Your Lord knows you very well. He will have mercy on you if He will, or punish you if He will. We have not sent you to be their guardian. (54)

Your Lord knows very well all who are in the heavens and the earth. We have preferred some Prophets above others, and to David We gave the Psalms. (55)

Say: 'Call to those whom you assert, other than Him. They have neither the power to remove your affliction nor to transfer it. ' (56)

Those, they call upon are themselves seeking a means to come to their Lord, competing with each other to be nearer; they hope for His Mercy and fear His punishment. Indeed, the punishment of your Lord is the subject of caution. (57)

There is no village except that it shall be destroyed or that We will punish it with a stern punishment before the Day of Resurrection. That is inscribed in the Book. (58)

Nothing prevented Us from sending the signs but that the ancients belied them. To Thamood, We brought the shecamel as a visible (sign), yet they wronged her. We do not send signs except to frighten. (59)

When We said to you: 'Indeed, your Lord encompasses all people. ' We did not make the vision which We showed to you, and the tree cursed in the Koran except to be a trial for people, and We frighten them, but it only increases them in great insolence. (60)