Allah swore by the sky, encompassing the various stages of the sun, moon, and other celestial bodies.

And He swore by the Day of Resurrection in which He promised to gather together all of creation.

He then swore by every witness, like the prophet who is a witness over his nation, and everything witnessed, like the nation that is witnessed against by its prophet.

Cursed are those who made a great pit in the earth.

They lit a fire in the pit and threw the believers into it alive,

while they sat around that pit filled with fire.

They are witnesses to the torture and exemplary punishment they inflicted upon the believers; they were present during it.

The disbelievers did not fault the believers for anything other than their belief in Allah, the Almighty, Whom none can overpower, and the One who is Praised for everything.

To Him Alone belong the dominion over the heavens and the earth. He is well aware of everything. No affair of His slaves is hidden from Him.

Indeed, those who tortured the believing men and women with fire to turn them away from believing in Allah alone, and did not repent afterward to Allah from their sins, will be in the torment of Hell on the Day of Resurrection. They will be punished by the Fire, which will burn them as a recompense for burning the believers with fire.

Those who believed in Allah and did righteous deeds will have gardens with rivers flowing underneath their palaces and trees. This is the reward that has been prepared for them, and this is the ultimate level of success to which no other success comes close.

Your Lord's seizure of the oppressor, O Messenger, is powerful indeed, even if He grants him respite for some time.

Indeed, it is He who originates creation and punishment, and it is He who restores them.

He is Oft-Forgiving of the sins of His slaves who repent, and He loves His friends who are mindful of Him.

Owner of the Noble Throne.

Doer of what He wills: pardoning the sins of whoever He wills and punishing whoever He wills. None can compel Him; may He be Exalted.

O Messenger, has the news reached you of the armies that set out to battle against the truth and stood against it?

[They were the armies of] Pharoah and Thamūd, the people of Saleh (peace be upon him).

The impediment to these people's belief is not due to news not reaching them about the destruction of nations that rejected faith before them. Rather, they deny what their messenger came with to follow their own desires.

Allah encompasses their deeds and keeps a record of them. He misses nothing from their actions, and He will recompense them accordingly.

The Quran is neither poetry nor rhyme, as its deniers claim. Rather, it is a noble Quran.

[It is] in a tablet that is preserved against any change, distortion, omission, or addition.