بِسْمِ اللّٰهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّح۪يمِ
43:22 "No, they said: "We found our forefathers on a path and we follow their teachings"."
43:23 "Likewise, before you, whenever We sent a warner to a city, the elite would say, "We found our forefathers on a path and we follow their teachings"."
43:24 "He would say, "Have I not brought you a truer message than that which you found your fathers on?"They would say, "We deny the message which you have brought."
43:25 So We took revenge on them. See how is the end of those who deny.
43:26 "Abraham said to his father and his people, "I am far from those whom you serve."
43:28 He made it an everlasting lesson for those who would come after him, lest they turn to the right path.
43:29 Indeed, I allowed them and their fathers until a true and clear messenger came to them.
43:30 "When the truth came to them, they said, "This is magic and we disbelieve in it."
43:31 "They said: "Should not this Qur´an have been sent down to a famous and great man from those two cities?"
43:32 Do they divide the mercy of your Lord? We divided between them their livelihood in the life of this world, and We made them superior to one another in rank, so that they might cause one another to work. And the mercy of your Lord is better than what they have accumulated.
43:33 Had it not been that all mankind would have been one people (in disbelief), We would have furnished the houses of those who disbelieve in the Most Merciful with silver ceilings and stairs for them to climb up.
43:35 And many ostentatious materials. All this is the temporary material of this worldly life. But the Hereafter is for the righteous in the Presence of your Lord.
43:36 And whoever disregards the message of the Most Merciful, We will cause a devil to take hold of him and he will be his companion.
43:37 Indeed they lead them astray. Yet they think that they are on the right path.
43:38 "When he finally comes to Us, he says: "If only there had been between me and you a distance as far as the distance between two eastern countries, what an evil companion you have been!"
43:39 On that Day (your repentance) will avail you nothing, for you were wrongdoers; you will share the punishment.
43:40 Will you make the deaf to hear, or will you guide the blind and those who are in manifest error?