Allah and Unbelievers

Allah has given you spouses from among yourselves and granted you children and grandchildren, and He has provided you with good things. Will they then believe in falsehood and deny Allah’s favours?

Have they not seen that We made Mecca a sanctuary, while people around them are being taken away? Will they still believe in falsehood and deny Allah’s blessings?

When they turn away, they strive to spread corruption on the earth, destroying crops and livestock.

They conceal their wrongdoing from people, but they cannot hide from Allah. He is with them when they conspire at night with words He disapproves of.

Do not grieve over those who rush toward disbelief. They cannot harm Allah in the least. He does not intend to grant them any share in the Hereafter.

So don’t let their words grieve you.

Let not the disbelievers think they have escaped; indeed, they will not prevail.

Whoever does not respond to the caller of Allah will not escape on earth, and he will have no protectors besides Him. They are in clear error.”

Have you not seen those who exchanged Allah’s favour for disbelief and led their people to ruin?

Those who trade faith for disbelief will not harm Allah in the least.

They are those who trade guidance for misguidance, yet their bargain brings no profit, nor are they rightly guided.

Allah mocks them and lets them wander blindly in their defiance

Whomever Allah wills to guide, He expands their heart to submission. But whomever He wills to leave astray, He makes their chest tight and constricted, as if they were climbing into the sky. Thus, Allah places defilement upon those who do not believe.

No soul can believe except by Allah’s will, and He places defilement upon those who do not use reason.

Man was created impatient. I will show you My signs. Do not be hasty.

They say, “When will this promise be fulfilled, if you are truthful?”

If only the disbelievers knew that when the Fire cannot be warded off from their faces or backs, and they receive no help

It will come upon them suddenly, leaving them unable to turn it back or delay it.

“So that Allah may erase the blessing of those who defy the truth.

So do not fear people, fear Me.

They know only the surface of worldly life, but they are heedless of the Hereafter.

Have they not reflected within themselves? Allah did not create the heavens and the earth, and all between them, except with truth and for a set time. Yet many people deny the meeting with their Lord.

Allah did not wrong them; they wronged themselves.

But many are also deserving of punishment. Whoever Allah disgraces, none can honour. Allah does what He wills.

These are two opposing groups who dispute about their Lord.

Say, “Had Allah willed, I would not have recited it to you, nor would He have made it known to you. I have lived among you for a lifetime before this, do you not understand?”

Say, “Have you considered the provisions Allah has sent down for you, which you have divided into lawful and unlawful?” Say, “Did Allah permit this, or do you invent lies against Him?”

But the disbelievers fabricated lies about Him. Most of them lack understanding.

See how they fabricate lies against Allah? That alone is enough for a clear sin.

Who is more unjust than one who fabricates lies about Allah or denies His signs?

Who does greater wrong than one who fabricates lies about Allah while being called to submit?

They want to extinguish Allah’s light with their mouths, but Allah will perfect His light, even if the disbelievers detest it.

Whoever fabricates lies against Allah after this, they are the true wrongdoers.

They will be presented before their Lord, and witnesses will say

Those who turn others away from Allah’s path and seek to make it crooked, they are the ones who deny the Hereafter.

How are you turned away?

“Has he fabricated a lie about Allah, or is he possessed?”

He’s just a man inventing lies about Allah; we won’t believe him.”

Have they not seen what lies before them and behind them of the sky and the earth? If We will, We could cause the earth to swallow them or the sky to fall upon them. Surely in this is a sign for every servant who turns back to Allah.

By Allah, you will be questioned about your fabrications.

Let the hearts of those who do not believe in the Hereafter incline toward their words, let them be pleased with them, and let them commit what they will.

We know best what they say, when the most reasonable among them will say, “You only stayed for a day.”

They ask you about the mountains, say, “My Lord will scatter them as dust.”

He will leave the earth flat and barren

With no curves or unevenness.

On that Day, they will follow the caller without deviation, and all voices will be hushed before the Most Merciful; only whispers will be heard.

Whenever a new reminder comes to them from their Lord, they listen to it in mockery.

Their hearts are distracted, and the wrongdoers whisper among themselves, “Is this not just a human like you? Will you fall for magic while you see it clearly?”

Their hearts are distracted, and the wrongdoers whisper among themselves, “Is this not just a human like you? Will you fall for magic while you see it clearly?”

But if they turn away, say, “I have warned you plainly. I do not know whether what you are promised is near or far.”

Whenever a new reminder comes to them from their Lord, they listen to it in mockery.

“He knows what is spoken aloud and what you conceal.”

Do they think We do not hear their whispers and secret talks? Our messengers are recording.

They swore by Allah with their strongest oaths that if a warner came to them, they would be more guided than any other nation. But when a warner came, it only increased their aversion

Out of arrogance in the land and plotting evil. But evil plotting only traps its authors. Are they waiting for anything but the fate of those before them?

Have they not travelled the earth and seen the fate of those before them, who were stronger than them?

They marvel that a warner has come from among them, saying, “This is a deceiving magician.”

We know best what they listen to when they secretly conspire, the wrongdoers say, “You follow only a bewitched man.”

Do they not know that Allah knows their secrets and whispers?

Have you not seen those who were forbidden secret meetings yet persist in them, whispering about sin, hostility, and defiance of the Messenger?

Secret meetings are only from Satan, meant to grieve the believers. Yet he cannot harm them unless Allah permits. Let the believers trust in Allah.

There is little good in their secret talks

But whoever turns away from Allah, his angels, his books, his messengers, and the Last Day, has drifted into a deep and distant ruin.

Those who reject faith and turn others away from Allah’s path have strayed far.

Allah leads astray whom He wills and guides whom He wills.

Do you wish to guide those whom Allah has led astray? Whoever Allah misguides, you will find no way for them.

Whoever goes astray does so to his own loss. You are not their keeper.

Even if you long for their guidance, Allah does not guide those He leaves to stray, and they will have no helpers.

Whoever trades faith for disbelief has surely strayed from the right path.

But whoever turns away has strayed far.”

Or do you think most of them hear or understand? They are like cattle, no, they are even more astray.

See how they compare you to falsehoods, but they are lost and cannot find the way.

Postponing sacred months is an act of disbelief that leads people further astray. They make a month sacred one year and profane it another, to match the number of months Allah made sacred, thus permitting what Allah has forbidden. Their evil deeds seem fair to them.

Whoever Allah leaves to stray, you will find no way for them.

Has he looked into the unseen, or has he taken a promise from the Most Merciful?

And We will inherit from him what he speaks of, and he will come to Us alone.