The Poets · Surah 26

When their brother Lot said unto them: Will ye not ward off (evil)

Lo! I am a faithful messenger unto you

So keep your duty to Allah and obey me

And I ask of you no wage therefor; my wage is the concern only of the Lord of the Worlds

What! Of all creatures do ye come unto the males

And leave the wives your Lord created for you? Nay, but ye are froward folk

They said: If thou cease not, O Lot, thou wilt soon be of the outcast

He said: I am in truth of those who hate your conduct

My Lord! Save me and my household from what they do

So We saved him and his household, every one

Save an old woman among those who stayed behind

Then afterward We destroyed the others

And We rained on them a rain. And dreadful is the rain of those who have been warned

Lo! herein is indeed a portent, yet most of them are not believers

And lo! thy Lord, He is indeed the Mighty, the Merciful

The dwellers in the wood (of Midian) denied the messengers (of Allah)

When Shu'eyb said unto them: Will ye not ward off (evil)

Lo! I am a faithful messenger unto you

So keep your duty to Allah and obey me

And I ask of you no wage for it; my wage is the concern only of the Lord of the Worlds

Give full measure, and be not of those who give less (than the due)

And weigh with the true balance

Wrong not mankind in their goods, and do not evil, making mischief, in the earth

And keep your duty unto Him Who created you and the generations of the men of old

They said: Thou art but one of the bewitched

Thou art but a mortal like us, and lo! we deem thee of the liars

Then make fragments of the heaven fall upon us, if thou art of the truthful

He said: My Lord is Best Aware of what ye do

But they denied him, so there came on them the retribution of the day of gloom. Lo! it was the retribution of an awful day

Lo! herein is indeed a portent; yet most of them are not believers

And lo! thy Lord! He is indeed the Mighty, the Merciful

And lo! it is a revelation of the Lord of the Worlds

Which the True Spirit hath brought down

Upon thy heart, that thou mayst be (one) of the warners

In plain Arabic speech

And lo! it is in the Scriptures of the men of old

Is it not a token for them that the doctors of the Children of Israel know it

And if We had revealed it unto one of any other nation than the Arabs

And he had read it unto them, they would not have believed in it

Thus do We make it traverse the hearts of the guilty