The Poets · Surah 26

They will not believe in it till they behold the painful doom

So that it will come upon them suddenly, when they perceive not

Then they will say: Are we to be reprieved

Would they (now) hasten on Our doom

Hast thou then seen, if We content them for (long) years

And then cometh that which they were promised

(How) that wherewith they were contented naught availeth them

And We destroyed no township but it had its warners

For reminder, for We never were oppressors

The devils did not bring it down

It is not meet for them, nor is it in their power

Lo! verily they are banished from the hearing

Therefor invoke not with Allah another god, lest thou be one of the doomed

And warn thy tribe of near kindred

And lower thy wing (in kindness) unto those believers who follow thee

And if they (thy kinsfolk) disobey thee, say: Lo! I am innocent of what they do

And put thy trust in the Mighty, the Merciful

Who seeth thee when thou standest up (to pray)

And (seeth) thine abasement among those who fall prostrate (in worship)

Lo! He, only He, is the Hearer, the Knower

Shall I inform you upon whom the devils descend

They descend on every sinful, false one

They listen eagerly, but most of them are liars

As for poets, the erring follow them

Hast thou not seen how they stray in every valley

And how they say that which they do not

Save those who believe and do good works, and remember Allah much, and vindicate themselves after they have been wronged. Those who do wrong will come to know by what a (great) reverse they will be overturned