Allah's vast goodness, the One who solely possesses the dominion, is magnified and abundant. He is Omnipotent over everything; nothing is beyond His capability.

The One who created death and created life to test which of you, O people, is better in action. He is the Almighty whom no one can defeat, the Forgiver of the sins of those who repented among His slaves.

The One who created seven heavens; each heaven is a layer above the previous one without contact between heaven and heaven. You will not witness, O observer, any discrepancy or unsuitability in what Allah created. So look again: Do you see splitting or fracturing? You will never see that. You will only see a perfected, masterful creation.

Then, look again, time after time; your eyesight will return lowly, exhausted, and will cease looking, having not seen any defect or fault in the creation of the sky.

And most verily, We adorned the nearest heaven to the Earth with illuminating stars, and We made those stars flames with which the devils who eavesdrop are repelled such that they burn them. And We have prepared for them the blazing fire in the Hereafter.

And for those who disbelieve in their Lord, there is the torment of the kindled fire on the Day of Resurrection. Evil is the place of return that they return to.

When they are thrown into the Fire, they will hear an ugly, intense sound as it boils, like the boiling of a boiler.

Its parts almost separate from each other and become distinct due to the intensity of its fury upon those who enter it. Each time a wave of its disbelieving people is thrown into it, the angels appointed over it will ask them in rebuke: Did not a Messenger come to you in the worldly life, frightening you of the torment of Allah?

The disbelievers will say: Yes, a messenger came to us to frighten us of the torment of Allah, so we rejected him and told him: Allah did not send revelation. You messengers are just in great misguidance from the truth.

And the disbelievers will say: If we had been listening with a listening that is beneficial or reasoning with the reason of who distinguishes the truth from the falsehood, we would not be amongst the people of the Fire. Rather, we would have believed in the messengers, affirmed the truth of what they came with, and been among the companions of Paradise.

They confessed against themselves about disbelief and rejection, so they deserved the Fire. So away with the people of the Fire.

After mentioning the traits of the people of disbelief and their recompense, Allah proceeds to mention the traits of the people of belief and their recompense. He states:

Indeed, those who fear Allah in private have forgiveness for their sins. And they have a great reward, which is Paradise.

O people, speak secretly or openly, for Allah knows it. Indeed, He, Immaculate is He, is knowledgeable of what is in the hearts of His slaves; nothing from that is hidden from Him.

Does the One who created all creation not know what is secret and what is more concealed than what is secret?! He is The Subtle with His slaves, The Aware of their affairs; nothing of them is hidden from Him.

He is the One who made the Earth soft and easy for you to live on, so traverse its sides and borders and eat from His provision that He prepared for you within it. To Him alone is your resurrection for accountability and requital.

Do you feel safe from Allah, who is in the sky causing the Earth to split beneath you, just as He caused it to split beneath Qarun after it was easy and subdued for living upon, then it will quake with you after its stillness?!

Or do you feel safe from Allah, who is in the sky, sending down stones upon you from the sky just like He sent them upon the people of Lot? Then you will know My warning to you when you see My punishment, but you will not benefit from it after seeing the torment.

And most verily, the nations that came before these polytheists denied, so the torment of Allah descended upon them when they insisted on their disbelief and rejection, so how was My reprimand upon them? Verily, it was a severe reprimand.

Do these rejectors not see how the birds above them as they fly spread their wings in the air at times and close them upon themselves at other times? Nothing keeps them from falling to the Earth except Allah. Indeed, He sees everything; nothing is hidden from Him.

There is no army for you, O disbelievers, that can prevent you from the torment of Allah if He wishes to torment you. The disbelievers are but deluded; the Devil tricked them, so they were deceived by him.

And no one will provide for you if Allah prevents His provision from reaching you. Rather, the crux is that the disbelievers have persisted in argumentativeness, arrogance, and refraining from the truth.

So is the one who walks falling on his face, landing upon it, and is a polytheist, more guided, or the believer who walks straight on a straight path?

Say, O Messenger, to these rejecting polytheists: Allah is the One who created you and made for you ears you hear with, eyes you see with, and hearts you reason with. Little do you thank Him for the favors He has bestowed upon you.

Say, O Messenger, to these rejecting polytheists: Allah is the One who dispersed you throughout the Earth and spread you in it, not your idols, which do not create anything. To Him alone, on the Day of Resurrection, will you be gathered for account and requital, not to your idols. So fear Him and worship Him alone.

And the rejectors of the resurrection, considering it far-fetched, say: O Muhammad, when will this promise that you and your companions promised us to occur come if you are truthful in your claim that it is coming?!

Say, O Messenger: The knowledge of the Hour is only with Allah. No one knows when it will happen except Him. I am only a clear warner in my warning to you.

So when the promise inflicts them, and they see the torment close to them on the Day of Resurrection, the faces of those who disbelieved in Allah will change by blackening. It will be said to them: This is what you used to request and hasten in the worldly life.

O Messenger, reprimand these rejecting polytheists by telling them: If Allah took my life and the life of the believers that are with me or had mercy on us by delaying our demise, then who will save the disbelievers from a painful punishment? No one will save them.

Say, O Messenger, to these polytheists: He is The Vastly Merciful who invites you to worship Him alone. We have believed in Him, and upon Him alone have we relied in our affairs. So you will soon know, inescapably, who is in clear deviance and who is on a straight path.

Say, O Messenger, to these polytheists: Tell me, if the water you drink from were to become sunken into the Earth, making you unable to reach it, who would bring you abundant flowing water? No one other than Allah.