اِقْتَرَبَ لِلنَّاسِ حِسَابُهُمْ وَهُمْ فٖی غَفْلَةٍ مُعْرِضُونَۚ

[The time of] their account has approached for the people, while they are in heedlessness turning away

Saheeh Intl

21:2

مَا یَاْتٖیهِمْ مِنْ ذِكْرٍ مِنْ رَبِّهِمْ مُحْدَثٍ اِلَّا اسْتَمَعُوهُ وَهُمْ یَلْعَبُونَۙ

No mention comes to them anew from their Lord except that they listen to it while they are at play

Saheeh Intl

21:3

لَاهِیَةً قُلُوبُهُمْؕ وَاَسَرُّوا النَّجْوٰىࣗ اَلَّذٖینَ ظَلَمُواࣗ هَلْ هٰذَٓا اِلَّا بَشَرٌ مِثْلُكُمْۚ اَفَتَاْتُونَ السِّحْرَ وَاَنْتُمْ تُبْصِرُونَ

With their hearts distracted. And those who do wrong conceal their private conversation, [saying], "Is this [Prophet] except a human being like you? So would you approach magic while you are aware [of it]

Saheeh Intl

21:4

قَالَ رَبّٖی یَعْلَمُ الْقَوْلَ فِی السَّمَٓاءِ وَالْاَرْضِؗ وَهُوَ السَّمٖیعُ الْعَلٖیمُ

The Prophet said, "My Lord knows whatever is said throughout the heaven and earth, and He is the Hearing, the Knowing

Saheeh Intl

21:5

بَلْ قَالُٓوا اَضْغَاثُ اَحْلَامٍ بَلِ افْتَرٰیهُ بَلْ هُوَ شَاعِرٌۚ فَلْیَاْتِنَا بِاٰیَةٍ كَمَٓا اُرْسِلَ الْاَوَّلُونَ

But they say, "[The revelation is but] a mixture of false dreams; rather, he has invented it; rather, he is a poet. So let him bring us a sign just as the previous [messengers] were sent [with miracles]

Saheeh Intl

21:6

مَٓا اٰمَنَتْ قَبْلَهُمْ مِنْ قَرْیَةٍ اَهْلَكْنَاهَاۚ اَفَهُمْ یُؤْمِنُونَ

Not a [single] city which We destroyed believed before them, so will they believe

Saheeh Intl

21:7

وَمَٓا اَرْسَلْنَا قَبْلَكَ اِلَّا رِجَالًا نُوحٖٓی اِلَیْهِمْ فَسْـَٔلُٓوا اَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ اِنْ كُنْتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ

And We sent not before you, [O Muhammad], except men to whom We revealed [the message], so ask the people of the message if you do not know

Saheeh Intl

21:8

وَمَا جَعَلْنَاهُمْ جَسَدًا لَا یَاْكُلُونَ الطَّعَامَ وَمَا كَانُوا خَالِدٖینَ

And We did not make the prophets forms not eating food, nor were they immortal [on earth]

Saheeh Intl

21:9

ثُمَّ صَدَقْنَاهُمُ الْوَعْدَ فَاَنْجَیْنَاهُمْ وَمَنْ نَشَٓاءُ وَاَهْلَكْنَا الْمُسْرِفٖینَ

Then We fulfilled for them the promise, and We saved them and whom We willed and destroyed the transgressors

Saheeh Intl

21:10

لَقَدْ اَنْزَلْنَٓا اِلَیْكُمْ كِتَابًا فٖیهِ ذِكْرُكُمْؕ اَفَلَا تَعْقِلُونَࣖ

We have certainly sent down to you a Book in which is your mention. Then will you not reason

Saheeh Intl

21. Al-Anbya

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