The Majestic Quran

sent down to you by Your Lord, and follow no other masters beside Him. People, you pay too little attention. I H , 4 How many towns did We destroy? Our scourge struck them at night, or during their afternoon nap, 5 and when Our scourge struck, they pleaded, “We were wrongdoers.” 6 We’ll question both the messengers and their people to whom they were sent. 7 Let Us tell them our side of the story based on irrefutable knowledge, for We were not absent. 8 The weighing up of deeds on that day is a certainty. Anyone with heavy scales of good deeds will be successful, 9 and anyone with light scales will lose out because they used to go against Our scripture. 10 We established you on Earth, and gave you the means to live. People, you give little thanks. S 11 Humanity , We created you and gave you the present form; then We told the angels, “Prostrate before Adam,” they all prostrated, except Satan who didn’t prostrate. 12 “What stopped you from prostrating when I commanded you?” God, Satan replied, “I am better than him since You created me from fire, and him from clay.” 13 God said to him, “Get down from here, how dare you be arrogant, so get out, you are despised.” 14 Satan said, “Give me time until the Day of Resurrection.” 15 God said, “You shall have your time.” 16 Satan said, “Since You let me go astray, I shall sit near Your straight path for a chance to lure them; 17 then I will pounce on them from the front, behind, and from their right and left, You will find most of them are ungrateful to You .” 18 God said, “Get out of here, despised and an outcast. Anyone who follows you, I will fill Hell with the lot of you.” H S A E 19 “Adam, live with your wife in Paradise and eat from wherever you wish, but don’t come near this tree otherwise you will be wrongdoers,” God said . 20 So Satan whispered to the two of them, in order to reveal their nakedness, of which they had until then been unaware, and said, “Your Lord has only forbidden you from eating fruit of this tree to stop you becoming angels or eternal.” 21 Then he swore an oath, “I am a sincere adviser for you both.” 22 So, by deception, he brought about their fall. On