صفحہ 129 صفحة ١٢٩

Indeed, if We had sent an angel as messenger, We would still have sent him in the form of a man, so increasing their confusion.

Messengers have been mocked before you [Muhammad], and those who mocked them were engulfed by the very punishment they had mocked.

Say, ‘Travel throughout the earth and see what fate befell those who rejected the truth.’

Say, ‘To whom belongs all that is in the heavens and earth?’ Say, ‘To God. He has taken it upon Himself to be merciful. He will certainly gather you on the Day of Resurrection, which is beyond all doubt. Those who deceive themselves will not believe.

All that rests by night or by day belongs to Him. He is the All Hearing, the All Knowing.’

Say, ‘Shall I take for myself a protector other than God, the Creator of the heavens and the earth, who feeds but is not fed?’ Say, ‘I am commanded to be the first [of you] to devote myself [to Him].’ Do not be one of the idolaters.

Say, ‘I fear the punishment of a dreadful Day if I disobey my Lord.

God will have been truly merciful to whoever is spared on that Day: that is the clearest triumph.’

If God touches you [Prophet] with affliction, no one can remove it except Him, and if He touches you with good, He has power over all things:

He is the Supreme Master over His creatures, the All Wise, the All Aware.