As sustenance for (Allah's) Servants;- and We give (new) life therewith to land that is dead: Thus will be the Resurrection. (11)

Before them was denied (the Hereafter) by the People of Noah, the Companions of the Rass, the Thamud, (12)

The 'Ad, Pharaoh, the brethren of Lut, (13)

The Companions of the Wood, and the People of Tubba'; each one (of them) rejected the messengers, and My warning was duly fulfilled (in them). (14)

Were We then weary with the first Creation, that they should be in confused doubt about a new Creation? (15)

It was We Who created man, and We know what dark suggestions his soul makes to him: for We are nearer to him than (his) jugular vein. (16)

Behold, two (guardian angels) appointed to learn (his doings) learn (and noted them), one sitting on the right and one on the left. (17)

Not a word does he utter but there is a sentinel by him, ready (to note it). (18)

And the stupor of death will bring Truth (before his eyes): "This was the thing which thou wast trying to escape!" (19)

And the Trumpet shall be blown: that will be the Day whereof Warning (had been given). (20)