He is Allah in the heavens and earth. He has knowledge of all that you hide and all that you reveal. He knows what you earn. (3)

Yet every time a sign comes to them from the signs of their Lord, they turn away from it. (4)

They belied the truth when it came to them, but there shall come to them news of that they were mocking. (5)

Have they not seen how many generations We have destroyed before them whom We had established in the land in a way We never established you, sending down for them abundant water from the sky and made the rivers to flow underneath them? Yet because they sinned, We destroyed them and raised up other generations after them. (6)

Had We sent down to you a Book on parchment and they touched it with their own hands, those who disbelieved would say: 'This is nothing but plain magic. ' (7)

They ask: 'Why has no angel been sent down to him? ' If We had sent down an angel, their fate would have been determined and they would never have been respited. (8)

If We had made him an angel, We would have given him the resemblance of a man, and would have as such confused them with that in which they are already confused. (9)

Other Messengers have been mocked before you. But those who scoffed at them were encompassed by that they had mocked. ' (10)

Say: 'Travel the land and see what was the fate of those who belied. ' (11)

Say: 'To whom belongs that which is in the heavens and the earth? ' Say: 'To Allah. He has written for Himself mercy, and will gather you on the Day of Resurrection in which there is no doubt. Those who have lost their souls, they do not believe. ' (12)