a guidance and a mercy to those who do good, (3)

who establish the prayer, pay the obligatory charity, and firmly believe in the Everlasting Life. (4)

Those are guided by their Lord and will surely prosper. (5)

There are some people who would purchase distracting talk, to lead astray from the Path of Allah without knowledge, and take it in mockery; for those is a humiliating punishment. (6)

When Our verses are recited to him, he turns his back in pride, as though he never heard them, and in his ears was heaviness. Give glad tidings to him of a painful punishment! (7)

But for those who believe and do good works are Gardens of Bliss, (8)

where they shall live for ever. The promise of Allah is the truth; He is the Almighty, the Wise. (9)

He created the heavens without pillars that you see and cast on the earth firm mountains lest it should shake with you. Upon it He dispersed all manner of crawling thing, and He sent down water from the sky with which He caused to grow in it every generous kind. (10)

Such is the creation of Allah; now show me what, other than Him, created! No, the harmdoers are in clear error. (11)

We gave wisdom to Lokman (saying): 'Give thanks to Allah. He who gives thanks, thanks only for himself, but whosoever is ungrateful, surely, Allah is the Rich, the Praised. ' (12)