The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics)

11: 21
Hud 137
they are sure to say, ‘What is holding it back?’ But on the Day it
comes upon them, nothing will divert it from them; what they
mocked will be all around them. 9 How desperate and ungrateful
man becomes when We let him taste Our mercy and then withhold
it! 10 And if We let him taste mercy after some harm has touched him,
he is sure to say, ‘Misfortune has gone away from me.’ He becomes
exultant and boastful. 11 Not so those who are steadfast and do good
deeds: they will have forgiveness and a great reward.
12 So [Prophet] are you going to a abandon some part of what is
revealed to you, and let your heart be oppressed by it, because they
say, ‘Why is no treasure sent down to him? Why has no angel come
with him?’? You are only there to warn; it is God who is in charge of
everything. 13 If they say, ‘He has invented it himself,’ say, ‘Then
produce ten invented suras like it, and call in whoever you can beside
God, if you are truthful.’ 14 If they do not answer you, then you will
all know that it is sent down containing knowledge from God, and
that there is no god but Him. Then will you submit to Him? 15 If any
desire [only] the life of this world with all its finery, We shall repay
them in full in this life for their deeds – they will be given no less –
16 but such people will have nothing in the Hereafter but the Fire:
their work here will be fruitless and their deeds futile. 17 Can they be
compared to those who have clear proof from their Lord, b recited
by a witness from Him, c and before it the Book of Moses, as a guide
and mercy? These people believe in it, whereas those groups that
deny its truth are promised the Fire. So have no doubt about it
[Prophet]: it is the Truth from your Lord, though most people do
not believe so.
18 Who could do more wrong than someone who invents lies about
God? Such people will be brought before their Lord, and the witnesses
will say, ‘These are the ones that lied about their Lord.’ God’s
rejection is the due of those who do such wrong, 19 who hinder others
from God’s path, trying to make it crooked, and deny the life to
come. 20 They will not escape on earth, and there will be no one other
than God to protect them. Their punishment will be doubled. They
could not hear, and they did not see. 21 It is they who will have lost
a Literally ‘Perhaps you will . . .’, but this is a challenging figure of speech.
b The Quran.
c The Angel Gabriel, see 4: 166.