50:1Qāf.1 By the honored Qur’ān...2

50:2But they wonder that there has come to them a warner from among themselves, and the disbelievers say, "This is an amazing thing.

50:3When we have died and have become dust, [we will return to life]? That is a distant [i.e., unlikely] return."

50:4We know what the earth diminishes [i.e., consumes] of them, and with Us is a retaining record.

50:5But they denied the truth when it came to them, so they are in a confused condition.

50:6Have they not looked at the heaven above them - how We structured it and adorned it and [how] it has no rifts?

50:7And the earth - We spread it out and cast therein firmly set mountains and made grow therein [something] of every beautiful kind,

50:8Giving insight and a reminder for every servant who turns [to Allāh].

50:9And We have sent down blessed rain from the sky and made grow thereby gardens and grain from the harvest

50:10And lofty palm trees having fruit arranged in layers -

50:11As provision for the servants, and We have given life thereby to a dead land. Thus is the emergence [i.e., resurrection].

50:12The people of Noah denied before them,1 and the companions of the well2 and Thamūd

50:13And ʿAad and Pharaoh and the brothers [i.e., people] of Lot

50:14And the companions of the thicket and the people of Tubbaʿ. All denied the messengers, so My threat was justly fulfilled.

50:15Did We fail in the first creation? But they are in confusion over a new creation.