( 1 ) Ya, Seen. <br />( 2 ) By the wise Qur'an. <br />( 3 ) Indeed you, [O Muhammad], are from among the messengers, <br />( 4 ) On a straight path. <br />( 5 ) [This is] a revelation of the Exalted in Might, the Merciful, <br />( 6 ) That you may warn a people whose forefathers were not warned, so they are unaware. <br />( 7 ) Already the word has come into effect upon most of them, so they do not believe. <br />( 8 ) Indeed, We have put shackles on their necks, and they are to their chins, so they are with heads [kept] aloft. <br />( 9 ) And We have put before them a barrier and behind them a barrier and covered them, so they do not see. <br />( 10 ) And it is all the same for them whether you warn them or do not warn them - they will not believe. <br />( 11 ) You can only warn one who follows the message and fears the Most Merciful unseen. So give him good tidings of forgiveness and noble reward. <br />( 12 ) Indeed, it is We who bring the dead to life and record what they have put forth and what they left behind, and all things We have enumerated in a clear register. <br /> 13 ) And present to them an example: the people of the city, when the messengers came to it - <br />( 14 ) When We sent to them two but they denied them, so We strengthened them with a third, and they said, "Indeed, we are messengers to you." <br />( 15 ) They said, "You are not but human beings like us, and the Most Merciful has not revealed a thing. You are only telling lies." <br />( 16 ) They said, "Our Lord knows that we are messengers to you, <br />( 17 ) And we are not responsible except for clear notification." <br />( 18 ) They said, "Indeed, we consider you a bad omen. If you do not desist, we will surely stone you, and there will surely touch you, from us, a painful punishment." <br />( 19 ) They said, "Your omen is with yourselves. Is it because you were reminded? Rather, you are a transgressing people." <br />( 20 ) And there came from the farthest end of the city a man, running. He said, "O my people, follow the messengers. <br />( 21 ) Follow those who do not ask of you [any] payment, and they are [rightly] guided. <br /> ( 22 ) And why should I not worship He who created me and to whom you will be returned? <br />( 23 ) Should I take other than Him [false] deities [while], if the Most Merciful intends for me some adversity, their intercession will not avail me at all, nor can they save me? <br />( 24 ) Indeed, I would then be in manifest error. <br />( 25 ) Indeed, I have believed in your Lord, so listen to me." <br />( 26 ) It was said, "Enter Paradise." He said, "I wish my people could know <br />( 27 ) Of how my Lord has forgiven me and placed me among the honored." <br /> 28 ) And We did not send down upon his people after him any soldiers from the heaven, nor would We have done so. <br />( 29 ) It was not but one shout, and immediately they were extinguished. <br />( 30 ) How regretful for the servants. There did not come to them any messenger except that they used to ridicule him.
