an order from Us. We are ever sending. (5)

A Mercy from your Lord, He is the Hearer, the Knower. (6)

Lord of the heavens and the earth and all that is between them, if you are certain (of your faith). (7)

There is no god except He. He revives and causes to die. (He is) your Lord and the Lord of your fathers, the ancients. (8)

Yet they are in doubt, playing. (9)

Watch for the Day when the heaven will bring clear smoke, (10)

engulfing the people; this will be a painful punishment. (11)

'Our Lord, remove this punishment from us, we are believers. ' (12)

But how will they avail themselves of the Reminder, when a clear Messenger had already come to them (13)

but then they turned away from him, saying: 'He is tutored, mad! ' (14)