until when We will open against them the door of a severe punishment, they will be taken aback in despair.

He is the One who created for you ears and eyes and hearts. Little you are grateful.

And He is the One who created you on the earth, and it is He unto whom you will be gathered together.

And He is the One who gives life and brings death, and it is He who controls the alternation of night and day. So, do you not understand?

But they say as the earlier people had said.

They said, “Is it that, when we will die and become dust and bones - is it that we will be raised again?

This is what has been promised to us and to our fathers before. It is nothing but the tales of the ancients.”

Say, “Whose is the earth and all those therein if you have knowledge?”

They will say, “Allah’s.” Say, “Would you still pay no heed?

Say, “Who is the Lord of the seven heavens and the Lord of the Great Throne?”

They will say, “(All this belongs) to Allah”. Say, “Would you still not fear Allah?”

Say, “Who is the One in whose hand lies the kingdom of every thing and who gives protection, and no protection can be given against him, if you have knowledge?”

They will say, “(All this belongs) to Allah.” Say, “Then by which magic are you drawn crazy?”

The fact is that We have brought to them The Truth, and they are absolute liars.

Allah has not taken a son to Himself, nor was there any god with Him. Had there been so, every god would have taken away what he created, and each one of them would have been aggressive against the other. Pure is Allah from what they describe.

He is the Knower of the hidden and the manifest. So, He is far higher than their ascribing of partners to Him.

(O prophet) say (in prayer), “O my Lord, if You are to show me (in my life) that (punishment) which they (the infidels) are threatened with,

then, my Lord, do not place me among the wrongdoing people.”

And of course, We do have the power to show you that with which We have threatened them.