O ye people! now hath a warning come to you from your Lord, and a healing for what is in your breasts, and a guidance and a mercy to the believers. Say: By the grace of God and his mercy! And in that let them therefore rejoice: this is better than what they heap up. Say: Do ye consider what God hath sent down to you for provision: but ye made thereof unlawful and lawful? Say, did God permit you? or do ye forge against God? But what will they think on the day of resurrection who forge a lie against God? Truly God is full of bounty towards man; but most of them are not thankful. Thou shalt not be in any business, and thou shalt not read from the Korān, and ye shall not do any deed, but we are witness against you when ye are engaged therein; and there escapeth not thy Lord an ant’s weight in earth or in heaven: and there is nothing lesser or greater than that, but it is in the plain Book. Are not they truly the friends of God on whom is no fear neither are they sorrowful-- They who believed and feared God,-- For them are good tidings in the life of this world, and in the life to come there is no changing in God’s sentences. That is the great prize! And let not their discourse grieve thee: verily all power belongeth to God, He it is who heareth and knoweth. Doth not whoever is in the heavens and whoever is in the earth belong to God? then what do they follow who call upon Partners beside God? verily they follow but a fancy; and verily they are naught but liars. It is He who made you the night to rest in, and the day for seeing: verily in that are signs to a folk that can hear! They say, “God hath taken him a son.” Extolled be his glory! He is the Self-sufficient, all that is in the heavens, and all that is in the earth is his! ye have no warranty for this! do ye say about God that which ye know not? Say: Verily they who forge this lie against God shall not prosper:-- A passing joy in this world, then to us they return; and then we will make them taste the grievous torment, because they did not believe. And tell them the story of Noah, when he said to his people,--“O my people! though my dwelling with you and my warning you of the signs of God hath been grievous to you, yet in God do I put my trust: so gather together your case and your Partners; then will not your case fall upon you in the dark: then decide about me and delay not. And if ye turn, yet ask I no reward from you: my reward is with God alone, and I am commanded to be of those who are resigned.” But they called him a liar, so we delivered him and those who were with him in the ship, and we made them to survive; and we drowned those who had called our signs lies: see then what was the end of those who were warned!