And when a harm befalleth you at sea, they whom ye call on beside Him are missing! Then when He bringeth you safe to land, ye stand aloof: for man was ever thankless.
Are ye sure that He will not swallow you up on the shore, or send a sand-storm against you? then ye would not find for you any defender.
Or are ye sure that He will not turn you back again to sea, and send against you a storm of wind and drown you, because ye were thankless? Then shall ye find for yourselves no helper against us.
And we have honoured the sons of Adam; and we have borne them on the land and on the sea, and have fed them with good things, and distinguished them above many of our creatures.
On a day we will summon all men with their scripture: then whoso is given his book into his right hand,—these shall read their book and not be wronged a whit.
And he who has been blind in this life shall be blind in the life to come, and miss the road yet more.
And verily they had well-nigh tempted thee from what we revealed to thee, to forge against us something false; and then they would have taken thee to friend;
And had we not prevented thee, thou hadst well-nigh inclined to them a little:
In that case we would have made thee to taste of torment double in life and double in death, then should’st thou find for thyself no helper against us.
And they well-nigh frightened thee from the land, to drive thee out of it; but if they had, they should only have tarried a little while behind thee.