Then We were true to the promise, We saved them together with those whom We willed, and destroyed the transgressors. (9)

Now, We have sent down to you a Book in which is your Remembrance. Will you not understand? (10)

How many harmdoing villages have We shattered and replaced them with another nation. (11)

And when they felt Our Might they fled from it. (12)

'Do not run away. Return to your luxury that you rejoiced in, and your homes in order that you be questioned! ' (13)

They said: 'Alas for us we were harmdoers! ' (14)

And this they did not stop crying out until We made them stubble, silent, and still. (15)

It was not in play that We created the heavens and the earth and all that lies between them. (16)

Had We wished to take to Us an amusement We would have taken it to Us from Ours had We done so. (17)

No, We hurl truth at falsehood, and it shall conquer it, and see, falsehood vanishes. Woe to you for all you have described. (18)