21. Al-Anbiya/The Prophets

21. Al-Anbiya/The Prophets

I/We begin by the Blessed Name of Allah

The Immensely Merciful to all, The Infinitely Compassionate to everyone.

21:01
The time of their reckoning draws ever closer to the people as it starts while experiencing their death,
and yet in their heedlessness of its coming, they keep turning away.

21:02
Whenever a new Message comes to them from their Rabb - The Lord,
they listen to it playfully.

21:03
Their hearts are preoccupied with trivial things.
Yet, concealing their inner thoughts, the unjust/wrongdoers say in their private conversations:
‘Is this Muhammad not a human being like you?
Will you, then, submit to his magic, with your eyes wide open?’

21:04
He - The Prophet – said:
‘My Rabb - The Lord Knows whatever you confer and conspire and, in fact, every word
spoken within the celestial realm and the terrestrial world.
For HE is the All-Listening, the All-Knowing.’

21:05
No way!
‘Instead, they allege:
The Qur’an is just a collection of his jumbled false dreams.
Perhaps he has fabricated it.
Rather he is a poet!’
If this is not the case, then let him bring us a miraculous Sign, as were the former Messengers assigned with Signs.

21:06
Not one of the habitation(s) which WE destroyed in punishment before they had believed.
So, will they, then, be willing to believe or get destroyed?

21:07
And WE have not assigned any Messenger before you except for those men on to whom WE revealed -
so just ask scholars of the Former Divine Scriptures, if you do not know.

21:08
And WE did not make for...