بِسمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحمـٰنِ الرَّحيمِ حم
Ha, Meem.
وَالكِتابِ المُبينِ
By the clear Book,
إِنّا جَعَلناهُ قُرآنًا عَرَبِيًّا لَعَلَّكُم تَعقِلونَ
Indeed, We have made it an Arabic Qur'an that you might understand.
وَإِنَّهُ في أُمِّ الكِتابِ لَدَينا لَعَلِيٌّ حَكيمٌ
And indeed it is, in the Mother of the Book with Us, exalted and full of wisdom.
أَفَنَضرِبُ عَنكُمُ الذِّكرَ صَفحًا أَن كُنتُم قَومًا مُسرِفينَ
Then should We turn the message away, disregarding you, because you are a transgressing people?
وَكَم أَرسَلنا مِن نَبِيٍّ فِي الأَوَّلينَ
And how many a prophet We sent among the former peoples,
وَما يَأتيهِم مِن نَبِيٍّ إِلّا كانوا بِهِ يَستَهزِئونَ
But there would not come to them a prophet except that they used to ridicule him.
فَأَهلَكنا أَشَدَّ مِنهُم بَطشًا وَمَضىٰ مَثَلُ الأَوَّلينَ
And We destroyed greater than them in [striking] power, and the example of the former peoples has preceded.
وَلَئِن سَأَلتَهُم مَن خَلَقَ السَّماواتِ وَالأَرضَ لَيَقولُنَّ خَلَقَهُنَّ العَزيزُ العَليمُ
And if you should ask them, "Who has created the heavens and the earth?" they would surely say, "They were created by the Exalted in Might, the Knowing."