They said, “Your evil augury is with yourselves! If ye be warned?—Nay! ye are an ignorant people.”
And there came from the furthest part of the city a man running: he said, “O my people! follow the Apostles,
Follow those who ask you not for recompense, and who are guided aright.
And what is in me, that I should not worship Him who made me and to whom ye must return?
Shall I take gods beside Him? If the Merciful be pleased to afflict me, their intercession will not avail me aught, nor will they deliver me;
Verily in that case I should be in a manifest error.
Verily I believe in your Lord: therefore hear ye me.”—
It was said, “Enter into Paradise,” and he said, “Would that my people knew
How that my Lord hath forgiven me and hath made me one of the honoured!”
And afterwards we sent not down upon his people armies out of heaven nor what we were wont to send down: