Every soul shall taste of death:6 and for trial will we prove you with evil and with good; and unto Us shall ye be brought back.
And when the infidels see thee they receive thee only with scoffs:-"What! is this he who maketh such mention of your gods?" Yet when mention is made to them of the God of Mercy, they believe not.
"Man," say they, "is made up of haste."7 But I will shew you my signs:8 desire them not then to be hastened.
They say, "When will this threat be made good? Tell us, if ye be men of truth?"
Did the infidels but know the time when they shall not be able to keep the fire of hell from their faces or from their backs, neither shall they be helped!
But it shall come on them suddenly and shall confound them; and they shall not be able to put it back, neither shall they be respited.
Other apostles have been scoffed at before thee: but that doom at which they mocked encompassed the scoffers.
SAY: Who shall protect you by night and by day from the God of Mercy? Yet turn they away from the warning of their Lord.
Have they gods beside Us who can defend them? For their own succour have they no power; neither shall the gods they join with God screen them from Us.
Yes! we have given these men and their fathers enjoyments so long as their life lasted. What! see they not that we come to a land and straiten its borders9 Is it they who are the conquerors?