Behold they not the birds over their heads, outstretching and drawing in their wings? None, save the God of Mercy, upholdeth them: for he regardeth all things.
Who is he that can be as an army to you, to succour you, except the God of
Mercy? Truly, the infidels are in the merest delusion.
Or who is he that will furnish you supplies, if He withhold His supplies? Yet do they persist in pride and in fleeing from Him!
Is he who goeth along grovelling on his face, better guided than he who goeth upright on a straight path?
SAY: It is He who hath brought you forth, and gifted you with hearing and sight and heart: yet how few are grateful!
SAY: It is He who hath sown you in the earth, and to Him shall ye be gathered.
And they say, "When shall this threat be put in force, if ye speak the truth?"
SAY: Nay truly, this knowledge is with God alone: and I am only an open warner.
But when they shall see it nigh, sad shall wax the countenances of the infidels: and it shall be said, "This is what ye have been calling for."
SAY: What think ye? Whether God destroy me or not, and those who follow me, or whether he have mercy on us, yet who will protect the infidels from a woeful torment?