SAY: If, as ye affirm, there were other gods with Him, they would in that case seek occasion against the occupant of the throne:
Glory to Him! Immensely high is He exalted above their blasphemies!
The seven heavens17 praise him, and the earth, and all who are therein; neither is there aught which doth not celebrate his praise; but their utterances of praise ye understand not. He is kind, indulgent.
When thou recitest the Koran we place between thee and those who believe not in the life to come, a dark veil;
And we put coverings over their hearts lest they should understand it, and in their ears a heaviness;
And when in the Koran thou namest thy One Lord, they turn their backs in flight.
We well know why they hearken, when they hearken unto thee, and when they whisper apart; when the wicked say, "Ye follow no other than a man enchanted."
See what likenesses they strike out for thee! But they are in error, neither can they find the path.
They also say, "After we shall have become bones and dust, shall we in sooth be raised a new creation?"
SAY: "Yes, though ye were stones, or iron, or any other creature, to your seeming, yet harder to be raised." But they will say, "Who shall bring us back?" SAY: "He who created you at first." And they will wag their heads at thee, and say, "When shall this be?" SAY: "Haply it is nigh."