the Holy Quran in English Translation: Mamdouk Bickthal Surat AL ANBYAA'

[21:31]
And We have placed in the earth firm hills lest it quake with them, and We have placed therein ravines as roads that haply they may find their way.
[21:32]
And we have made the sky a roof withheld (from them). Yet they turn away from its portents.
[21:33]
And He it is Who created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon. They float, each in an orbit.
[21:34]
We appointed immortality for no mortal before thee. What! if thou diest, can they be immortal!
[21:35]
Every soul must taste of death, and We try you with evil and with good, for ordeal. And unto Us ye will be returned.
[21:36]
And when those who disbelieve behold thee, they but choose thee out for mockery, (saying): Is this he who maketh mention of your gods ? And they would deny all mention of the Beneficent.
[21:37]
Man is made of haste. I shall show you My portents, but ask Me not to hasten.
[21:38]
And they say: When will this promise (be fulfilled), if ye are truthful ?
[21:39]
If those who disbelieved but knew the time when they will not be able to drive off the fire from their faces and from their backs, and they will not be helped!
[21:40]
Nay, but it will come upon them unawares so that it will stupefy them, and they will be unable to repel it, neither will they be reprieved.
[21:41]
Messengers before thee, indeed, were mocked, but that whereat they mocked surrounded those who scoffed at them.
[21:42]
Say: Who guardeth you in the night or in the day from the Beneficent ? Nay, but they turn away from mention of their Lord!
[21:43]
Or have they gods who can shield them from Us ? They cannot help themselves nor can they be defended from Us.
[21:44]
Nay, but We gave these and their fathers ease until life grew long for them. See they not how we aim to the land, reducing it of its outlying parts ? Can they then be the victors ?
[21:45]
Say (O Muhammad, unto mankind): I warn you only by the Inspiration. But the deaf hear not the call when they are warned.
[21:46]
And if a breath of thy Lord’s punishment were to touch them, they assuredly would say: Alas for us! Lo! we were wrong-doers.
[21:47]
And We set a just balance for the Day of Resurrection so that no soul is wronged in aught. Though it be of the weight of a grain of mustard seed, We bring it. And We suffice for reckoners.
[21:48]
And We verily gave Moses and Aaron the Criterion (of right and wrong) and a light and a Reminder for those who keep from evil,
[21:49]
Those who fear their Lord in secret and who dread the Hour (of doom).
[21:50]
This is a blessed Reminder that we have revealed: Will ye then reject it ?
[21:51]
And We verily gave Abraham of old his proper course, and We were Aware of him,
[21:52]
When he said unto his father and his folk: What are these images unto which ye pay devotion ?




[21:53]
They said: We found our fathers worshippers of them.
[21:54]
He said: Verily ye and your fathers were in plain error.
[21:55]
They said: Bringest thou unto us the truth, or art thou some jester ?
[21:56]
He said: Nay, but your Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth, Who created them; and I am of those who testify unto that.
[21:57]
And, by Allah, I shall circumvent your idols after ye have gone away and turned your backs.
[21:58]
Then he reduced them to fragments, all save the chief of them, that haply they might have recourse to it.
[21:59]
They said: Who hath done this to our gods ? Surely it must be some evil-doer.
[21:60]
They said: We heard a youth make mention of them, who is called Abraham.