M. H. Shakir, The Holy Quran; Arabic Text and English Translation; Foot-notes by M. H. Shakir (1974)
you to the faith if you are truthful.
18. Surely Allah knows the unseen things of the heavens and the earth; and Allah sees what you do.
Chapter 50
Qaf
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Qaf. I swear by the glorious Quran (that Muhammad is the Apostle of Allah.)
2. Nay! they wonder that there has come to them a warner from among themselves, so the unbelievers say: This is a wonderful thing:
3. What! when we are dead and have become dust? That is a far (from probable) return.
4. We know indeed what the earth diminishes of them, and with Us is a writing that preserves.
5. Nay, they rejected the truth when it came to them, so they are (now) in a state of confusion.
6. Do they not then look up to heaven above them how We have made it and adorned it and it has no gaps?
7. And the earth, We have made it plain and cast in it mountains and We have made
