Rowwad Translation Center — 300

18:54 We have surely diversified in this Qur’an every kind of example for people[1], but man is the most quarrelsome of all beings[2].

18:55 Nothing prevents people from believing when guidance comes to them and from seeking forgiveness from their Lord except that the fate of the earlier nations should come to them, or that the punishment should come before their eyes.

18:56 We do not send the messengers except as bearers of glad tidings and warners. But those who disbelieve seek to undermine the truth with false arguments, and they take My verses and warnings in ridicule.

18:57 Who could be more wrong than one who is reminded of the verses of his Lord, but he turns away from them and forgets what his hands have sent forth? We have placed veils on their hearts so that they cannot understand it, and deafness in their ears. Even if you call them to guidance, they will never be guided.

18:58 But your Lord is the All-Forgiving, Lord of Mercy. If He were to take them to task for what they did, He would have hastened their punishment. Yet there is an appointed time for them from which they will find no escape.

18:59 Those are the towns We destroyed when they persisted in wrongdoing, and We set an appointed time for their destruction.

18:60 And [remember] when Moses said to his servant, “I will not give up until I reach the junction of the two seas, or I travel for ages.”

18:61 But when they reached the junction of the two seas, they forgot their fish, which made its way into the sea, slipping away.