Rowwad Translation Center — 518

50:1 Qāf[1]. By the Glorious Qur’an!

50:2 But they wonder that a warner has come to them from among themselves, so the disbelievers say, “This is something strange!

50:3 What! Is it when we die and become dust [will we return to life]? That is a far-fetched return.”

50:4 We certainly know what the earth consumes of them [after their death], and with Us is a Preserved Record[1].

50:5 Rather they rejected the truth when it came to them, so they are in a state of confusion[1].

50:6 Have they not then looked at the sky above them – how We built it and adorned it [with stars], and it has no rifts?

50:7 And We have spread out the earth and set therein firm mountains, and caused to grow therein plants of every pleasant kind,

50:8 as a source of insight and a reminder to every slave who turns [to Allah].

50:9 And We send down from the sky blessed rain, with which We cause to grow gardens and grain for harvest,

50:10 and towering palm trees having clustered fruit,

50:11 as a provision for people, and We revive thereby a dead land; likewise will be the resurrection.

50:12 The people of Noah rejected [the truth] before them[1], as well as the companions of the Well[2] and Thamūd,

50:13 and so did ‘Ād, Pharaoh, the people of Lot,

50:14 and the dwellers of the Forest[1], and the people of Tubba‘[2]. All of them rejected the messengers, so My warning was fulfilled.

50:15 Were We wearied by their first creation? No indeed, yet they are in confusion concerning the second creation.