13 That is, our past life seems brevity itself in comparison with eternal torment.
14 Lit. those who number, or keep account, i.e. our torments distract us too much to allow us to compute.
SURA XXI.-THE PROPHETS [LXV.]
MECCA.-112 Verses
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
THIS people's reckoning hath drawn nigh, yet, sunk in carelessness, they turn aside.
Every fresh warning that cometh to them from their Lord they only hear to mock it,-
Their hearts set on lusts: and they who have done this wrong say in secret discourse, "Is He more than a man like yourselves? What! will ye, with your eyes open,1 accede to sorcery?"
SAY: "My Lord knoweth what is spoken in the heaven and on the earth: He is the Hearer, the Knower."
"Nay," say they, "it is the medley of dreams: nay, he hath forged it: nay, he is a poet: let him come to us with a sign as the prophets of old were sent."