Then will we proceed to the works which they have wrought, and make them as scattered dust.
Happier, on that day, the inmates of the Garden as to abode, and better off as to place of noontide slumber!
On that day shall the heaven with its clouds be cleft, and the angels shall be sent down, descending:
On that day shall all empire be in very deed with the God of Mercy, and a hard day shall it be for the Infidels.
And on that day shall the wicked one7 bite his hands, and say, "Oh! would that I had taken the same path with the Apostle!
"Oh! woe is me! would that I had not taken such an one8 for my friend!
It was he who led me astray from the Warning which had reached me! and Satan is man's betrayer."9
Then said the Apostle, "O my Lord! truly my people have esteemed this Koran to be vain babbling."
Thus have we given to every Prophet an enemy from among the wicked ones-But thy Lord is a sufficient guide and helper.
And the infidels say, "Unless the Koran be sent down to him all at once. . . ." But in this way would we stablish thy heart by it; in parcels have we parcelled it out to thee;10