أَكُفّارُكُم خَيرٌ مِن أُولـٰئِكُم أَم لَكُم بَراءَةٌ فِي الزُّبُرِ

Are your disbelievers better than those [former ones], or have you immunity in the scripture?

أَم يَقولونَ نَحنُ جَميعٌ مُنتَصِرٌ

Or do they say, "We are an assembly supporting [each other]"?

سَيُهزَمُ الجَمعُ وَيُوَلّونَ الدُّبُرَ

[Their] assembly will be defeated, and they will turn their backs [in retreat].

بَلِ السّاعَةُ مَوعِدُهُم وَالسّاعَةُ أَدهىٰ وَأَمَرُّ

But the Hour is their appointment [for due punishment], and the Hour is more disastrous and more bitter.

إِنَّ المُجرِمينَ في ضَلالٍ وَسُعُرٍ

Indeed, the criminals are in error and madness.

إِنّا كُلَّ شَيءٍ خَلَقناهُ بِقَدَرٍ

Indeed, all things We created with predestination.

وَما أَمرُنا إِلّا واحِدَةٌ كَلَمحٍ بِالبَصَرِ

And Our command is but one, like a glance of the eye.

وَلَقَد أَهلَكنا أَشياعَكُم فَهَل مِن مُدَّكِرٍ

And We have already destroyed your kinds, so is there any who will remember?

وَكُلُّ شَيءٍ فَعَلوهُ فِي الزُّبُرِ

And everything they did is in written records.

وَكُلُّ صَغيرٍ وَكَبيرٍ مُستَطَرٌ

And every small and great [thing] is inscribed.