53:41 Whereupon he shall be required for it with the fullest requital.
53:42 And that with thy Sustainer is the beginning and the end [of all that exists].
53:43 And that it is He alone who causes [you] to laugh and to weep.
53:44 And that it is He alone who deals death and grants life.
53:45 And that it is He who creates the two kinds – the male and the female.
53:46 Out of a [mere] drop of sperm as it is poured forth.
53:47 And that [therefore] it is within His power to bring about second life.
53:48 And that it is He alone who frees from want and causes to possess.
53:49 And that it is He alone who sustains the brightest star.
53:50 And that it is He who destroyed the ancient [tribes of] ‘Ad.
53:51 And Thamud, leaving no trace [of them].
53:52 As well as the people of Noah before them – [since] Verily, they all had been most wilful in their evildoing and most overweening.
53:53 Just as He thrust into perdition those cities that were overthrown.
53:54 And then covered them from sight forever.
53:55 About which, then, of thy Sustainer’s powers canst thou [still] remain in doubt?
53:56 This is a warning like those warnings of old.
53:57 That [Last Hour] which is so near drawing ever nearer.
53:58 [Although] none but God can unveil it….
53:59 Do you, perchance, find this tiding strange?
53:60 And do you laugh instead of weeping.
53:61 And divert yourselves all the while?
53:62 [Nay] but prostrate yourselves before God, and worship [Him alone]!
