Yet they say, "The God of Mercy hath begotten issue from the angels." Glory be to Him! Nay, they are but His honoured servants:
They speak not till He hath spoken;4 and they do His bidding.
He knoweth what is before them and what is behind them; and no plea shall they offer
Save for whom He pleaseth; and they tremble for fear of Him.
And that angel among them who saith "I am a god beside Him," will we recompense with hell: in such sort will we recompense the offenders.
Do not the infidels see that the heavens and the earth were both a solid mass, and that we clave them asunder, and that by means of water we give life to everything? Will they not then believe?
And we set mountains on the earth lest it should move with them, and we made on it broad passages between them as routes for their guidance;
And we made the heaven a roof strongly upholden; yet turn they away from its signs.
And He it is who hath created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon, each moving swiftly in its sphere.
At no time5 have we granted to man a life that shall last for ever: if thou then die, shall they live for ever?