21:37
Man is a creature of haste: soon (enough) will I show you My Signs;
then ye will not ask Me tohasten them!
21:38
They say: “When will this promise come to pass, if ye are telling the
truth?”
21:39
If only the Unbelievers knew (the time) when they will not be able
to ward off the fire from their faces, nor yet from their backs, and
(when) no help can reach them!
21:40
Nay, it may come to them all of a sudden and confound them: no
power will they have then to avert it, nor will they (then) get respite.
21:41
Mocked were (many) messenger before thee; But their scoffers were
hemmed in by the thing that they mocked.
21:42
Say: “Who can keep you safe by night and by day from (the Wrath
of) (Allah) Most Gracious? “Yet they turn away from the mention
of their Lord.
21:43
Or have they gods that can guard them from Us? They have no
power to aid themselves, norcan they be defended from Us.
21:44
Nay, We gave the good things of this life to these men and their
fathers until the period grew long for them; See they not that We
gradually reduce the land (in their control) from itsoutlying borders?
Is it then they who will win?
21:45
Say, “I do but warn you according to revelation”: But the deaf will
not hear the call, (even)when they are warned!
21:46
If but a breath of the Wrath of thy Lord do touch them, they will
then say, “Woe to us! we did wrong indeed!”
Breath renders naf ah, a word that can also mean “breeze” or
“fragrance.” It conveys the idea of something light and very slight,
in the sense that one does not come into contact with the thing itself,
but with what emanates from it. Here just a “whiff” of the
punishment of the Hereafter causes exclamations of woe unto us
(R), when it will be too late for the recognition Truly we were
wrongdoers to do them any good (Q);
21:47
We shall set up scales of justice for the Day of Judgment, so that not
a soul will be dealt with unjustly in the least, and if there be (no more
than) the weight of a mustard seed, We will bring it (to account):
and enough are We to take account.
21:48
In the past We granted to Moses and Aaron the criterion (for
judgment), and a Light and aMessage
for those who would do right,-
21:49
Those who fear their Lord in their most secret thoughts, and who
hold the Hour (of Judgment)in awe.
21:50
And this is a blessed Message which We have sent down: will ye
then reject it?
21:51
We bestowed aforetime on Abraham his rectitude of conduct, and
well were We acquainted with him.
21:52
Behold! he said to his father and his people, “What are these images,
to which ye are (so assiduously) devoted?”
21:53
They said, “We found our fathers worshipping them.”
21:54
He said, “Indeed ye have been in manifest error – ye and your
fathers.”
21:55
They said, “Have you brought us the Truth, or are you one of those
who jest?”
21:56
He said, “Nay, your Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth,
He Who created them (from nothing): and I
am a witness to this (Truth).
21:57
“And by Allah, I have a plan for your idols – after ye go away and
turn your backs”..
21:58
So he broke them to pieces, (all) but the biggest of them, that they
might turn (and address
themselves) to it.
21:59
They said, “Who has done this to our gods? He must indeed be some
man of impiety!”
21:60
They said, “We heard a youth talk of them: He is called Abraham.”
21:61
They said, “Then bring him before the eyes of the people, that they
may bear witness.”