THE BELIEVER.
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful.
H. M. The revelation of the Book is from God the Mighty, the Wise,
Forgiver of sin, and accepter of repentance,—heavy in punishment,
Long-suffering: there is no God but He, to whom is your journeying.
None dispute about the signs of God save those who disbelieve; but let not their trafficking in the land deceive thee.
Before them the people of Noah, and the allies after them, denied, and every folk hath purposed against its apostle to overmaster him, and they argued with falsehood to rebut the truth therewith; but I did overmaster them and how great was my punishment!
And thus was the sentence of thy Lord accomplished upon those who disbelieved, that they should be inmates of the Fire!
They that bear the Throne and they that are round about it magnify the praise of their Lord and believe in Him and beg forgiveness for those who believe:—“O our Lord! thou embracest all things in mercy and knowledge, give pardon to those who repent and follow thy path, and keep them from the torment of hell,
O our Lord, and bring them into the gardens of eternity which thou hast promised to them and to the just among their fathers and their wives and their offspring; verily thou art the Mighty, the Wise;