15-1 : Alif, Lam, Ra. These are the verses of the book40 and a clear Qur'an.

15-2 : Perhaps those who disbelieve will wish that they had been Muslims.

15-3 : Let them eat and enjoy themselves and be diverted by [false] hope, for they are going to know.

15-4 : And We did not destroy any city but that for it was a known decree.

15-5 : No nation will precede its term, nor will they remain thereafter.

15-6 : And they say, "O you upon whom the message has been sent down, indeed you are mad.

15-7 : Why do you not bring us the angels, if you should be among the truthful?"

15-8 : We do not send down the angels except with truth; and the disbelievers would not then be reprieved.

15-9 : Indeed, it is We who sent down the Qur'an and indeed, We will be its guardian.

15-10 : And We had certainly sent [messengers] before you, [O muhammad], among the sects of the former peoples.

15-11 : And no messenger would come to them except that they ridiculed him.

15-12 : Thus do We insert denial into the hearts of the criminals.

15-13 : They will not believe in it, while there has already occurred the precedent of the former peoples.

15-14 : And [even] if We opened to them a gate from the heaven and they continued therein to ascend,

15-15 : They would say, "Our eyes have only been dazzled. Rather, we are a people affected by magic."

15-16 : And We have placed within the heaven great stars and have beautified it for the observers.

15-17 : And We have protected it from every devil expelled [from the mercy of Allah]

15-18 : Except one who steals a hearing and is pursued by a clear burning flame.

15-19 : And the earth - We have spread it and cast therein firmly set mountains and caused to grow therein [something] of every well - balanced thing.

15-20 : And We have made for you therein means of living and [for] those for whom you are not providers.

15-21 : And there is not a thing but that with Us are its depositories, and We do not send it down except according to a known measure.

15-22 : And We have sent the fertilizing winds and sent down water from the sky and given you drink from it. And you are not its retainers.

15-23 : And indeed, it is We who give life and cause death, and We are the Inheritor.

15-24 : And We have already known the preceding [generations] among you, and We have already known the later [ones to come].

15-25 : And indeed, your Lord will gather them; indeed, He is Wise and Knowing.

15-26 : And We did certainly create man out of clay from an altered black mud.

15-27 : And the jinn We created before from scorching fire.

15-28 : And [mention, O muhammad], when your Lord said to the angels, "I will create a human being out of clay from an altered black mud.

15-29 : And when I have proportioned him and breathed into him of My [created] soul, then fall down to him in prostration."

15-30 : So the angels prostrated - all of them entirely,

15-31 : Except Iblees, he refused to be with those who prostrated.

15-32 : [Allah] said, O Iblees, what is [the matter] with you that you are not with those who prostrate?"

15-33 : He said, "Never would I prostrate to a human whom You created out of clay from an altered black mud."

15-34 : [Allah] said, "Then get out of it, for indeed, you are expelled.

15-35 : And indeed, upon you is the curse until the Day of Recompense."

15-36 : He said, "My Lord, then reprieve me until the Day they are resurrected."

15-37 : [Allah] said, "So indeed, you are of those reprieved

15-38 : Until the Day of the time well - known."

15-39 : [Iblees] said, "My Lord, because You have put me in error, I will surely make [disobedience] attractive to them on earth, and I will mislead them all

15-40 : Except, among them, Your chosen servants."

15-41 : [Allah] said, "This is a path [of return] to Me [that is] straight.

15-42 : Indeed, My servants - no authority will you have over them, except those who follow you of the deviators.

15-43 : And indeed, Hell is the promised place for them all.

15-44 : It has seven gates; for every gate is of them a portion designated."

15-45 : Indeed, the righteous will be within gardens and springs.

15-46 : [Having been told], "Enter it in peace, safe [and secure]."

15-47 : And We will remove whatever is in their breasts of resentment, [so they will be] brothers, on thrones facing each other.

15-48 : No fatigue will touch them therein, nor from it will they [ever] be removed.

15-49 : [O muhammad], inform My servants that it is I who am the Forgiving, the Merciful.

15-50 : And that it is My punishment which is the painful punishment.

15-51 : And inform them about the guests of Abraham,

15-52 : When they entered upon him and said, "Peace." [Abraham] said, "Indeed, we are fearful of you."

15-53 : [The angels] said, "Fear not. Indeed, we give you good tidings of a learned boy."

15-54 : He said, "Have you given me good tidings although old age has come upon me? Then of what [wonder] do you inform?"

15-55 : They said, "We have given you good tidings in truth, so do not be of the despairing."

15-56 : He said, "And who despairs of the mercy of his Lord except for those astray?"

15-57 : [Abraham] said, "Then what is your business [here], O messengers?"

15-58 : They said, "Indeed, we have been sent to a people of criminals,

15-59 : Except the family of Lot; indeed, we will save them all

15-60 : Except his wife." Allah decreed that she is of those who remain behind.

15-61 : And when the messengers came to the family of Lot,

15-62 : He said, "Indeed, you are people unknown."

15-63 : They said, "But we have come to you with that about which they were disputing,

15-64 : And we have come to you with truth, and indeed, we are truthful.

15-65 : So set out with your family during a portion of the night and follow behind them and let not anyone among you look back and continue on to where you are commanded."

15-66 : And We conveyed to him [the decree] of that matter: that those [sinners] would be eliminated by early morning.

15-67 : And the people of the city came rejoicing.

15-68 : [Lot] said, "Indeed, these are my guests, so do not shame me.

15-69 : And fear Allah and do not disgrace me."

15-70 : They said, "Have we not forbidden you from [protecting] people?"

15-71 : [Lot] said, "These are my daughters - if you would be doers [of lawful marriage]."

15-72 : By your life, [O muhammad], indeed they were, in their intoxication, wandering blindly.

15-73 : So the shriek seized them at sunrise.

15-74 : And We made the highest part [of the city] its lowest and rained upon them stones of hard clay.

15-75 : Indeed in that are signs for those who discern.

15-76 : And indeed, those cities are [situated] on an established road.

15-77 : Indeed in that is a sign for the believers.

15-78 : And the companions of the thicket were [also] wrongdoers.

15-79 : So We took retribution from them, and indeed, both [cities] are on a clear highway.

15-80 : And certainly did the companions of Thamud deny the messengers.

15-81 : And We gave them Our signs, but from them they were turning away.

15-82 : And they used to carve from the mountains, houses, feeling secure.

15-83 : But the shriek seized them at early morning.

15-84 : So nothing availed them [from] what they used to earn.

15-85 : And We have not created the heavens and earth and that between them except in truth. And indeed, the Hour is coming; so forgive with gracious forgiveness.

15-86 : Indeed, your Lord - He is the Knowing Creator.

15-87 : And We have certainly given you, [O muhammad], seven of the often repeated [verses] and the great Qur'an.

15-88 : Do not extend your eyes toward that by which We have given enjoyment to [certain] categories of the disbelievers, and do not grieve over them. And lower your wing to the believers

15-89 : And say, "Indeed, I am the clear warner" -

15-90 : Just as We had revealed [scriptures] to the separators

15-91 : Who have made the Qur'an into portions.

15-92 : So by your Lord, We will surely question them all

15-93 : About what they used to do.

15-94 : Then declare what you are commanded and turn away from the polytheists.

15-95 : Indeed, We are sufficient for you against the mockers

15-96 : Who make [equal] with Allah another deity. But they are going to know.

15-97 : And We already know that your breast is constrained by what they say.

15-98 : So exalt [Allah] with praise of your Lord and be of those who prostrate [to Him].

15-99 : And worship your Lord until there comes to you the certainty (death).