Rowwad Translation Center — 262

15:1 Alif Lām Ra[1]. These are the verses of the Book and a clear Qur’an.

15:2 The disbelievers will soon[1] wish that they were Muslims.

15:3 Let them eat and enjoy themselves and be diverted with false hope; they will come to know.

15:4 We never destroyed any town except that it had a destined time.

15:5 No nation can advance its appointed time, nor can they delay it.

15:6 They say, “O you to whom the Reminder has been sent down, You are surely insane[1]!

15:7 Why do you not bring us the angels, if you are truthful?”

15:8 We do not send down the angels except for a just cause, and then [the disbelievers] would be granted no respite[1].

15:9 It is We Who have sent down the Reminder[1], and it is We Who will preserve it[2].

15:10 We did send messengers before you among the factions of early peoples.

15:11 No messenger came to them except that they ridiculed him.

15:12 This is how We let this [denial] enter the hearts of the wicked[1].

15:13 They will not believe in it, although the examples of the earlier people are well established.

15:14 Even if We were to open for them a gateway to the heaven, through which they kept ascending,

15:15 they would still say, “Our eyes have been dazzled; rather, we have been bewitched.”