كَذَّبَ الَّذينَ مِن قَبلِهِم فَأَتاهُمُ العَذابُ مِن حَيثُ لا يَشعُرونَ

Those before them denied, and punishment came upon them from where they did not perceive.

فَأَذاقَهُمُ اللَّهُ الخِزيَ فِي الحَياةِ الدُّنيا ۖ وَلَعَذابُ الآخِرَةِ أَكبَرُ ۚ لَو كانوا يَعلَمونَ

So Allah made them taste disgrace in worldly life. But the punishment of the Hereafter is greater, if they only knew.

وَلَقَد ضَرَبنا لِلنّاسِ في هـٰذَا القُرآنِ مِن كُلِّ مَثَلٍ لَعَلَّهُم يَتَذَكَّرونَ

And We have certainly presented for the people in this Qur'an from every [kind of] example - that they might remember.

قُرآنًا عَرَبِيًّا غَيرَ ذي عِوَجٍ لَعَلَّهُم يَتَّقونَ

[It is] an Arabic Qur'an, without any deviance that they might become righteous.

ضَرَبَ اللَّهُ مَثَلًا رَجُلًا فيهِ شُرَكاءُ مُتَشاكِسونَ وَرَجُلًا سَلَمًا لِرَجُلٍ هَل يَستَوِيانِ مَثَلًا ۚ الحَمدُ لِلَّهِ ۚ بَل أَكثَرُهُم لا يَعلَمونَ

Allah presents an example: a slave owned by quarreling partners and another belonging exclusively to one man - are they equal in comparison? Praise be to Allah! But most of them do not know.

ثُمَّ إِنَّكُم يَومَ القِيامَةِ عِندَ رَبِّكُم تَختَصِمونَ

Then indeed you, on the Day of Resurrection, before your Lord, will dispute.

فَمَن أَظلَمُ مِمَّن كَذَبَ عَلَى اللَّهِ وَكَذَّبَ بِالصِّدقِ إِذ جاءَهُ ۚ أَلَيسَ في جَهَنَّمَ مَثوًى لِلكافِرينَ

So who is more unjust than one who lies about Allah and denies the truth when it has come to him? Is there not in Hell a residence for the disbelievers?

وَالَّذي جاءَ بِالصِّدقِ وَصَدَّقَ بِهِ ۙ أُولـٰئِكَ هُمُ المُتَّقونَ

And the one who has brought the truth and [they who] believed in it - those are the righteous.

لَهُم ما يَشاءونَ عِندَ رَبِّهِم ۚ ذٰلِكَ جَزاءُ المُحسِنينَ

They will have whatever they desire with their Lord. That is the reward of the doers of good -

لِيُكَفِّرَ اللَّهُ عَنهُم أَسوَأَ الَّذي عَمِلوا وَيَجزِيَهُم أَجرَهُم بِأَحسَنِ الَّذي كانوا يَعمَلونَ

That Allah may remove from them the worst of what they did and reward them their due for the best of what they used to do.