Al-Qamar

The Hour has drawn near and the moon has split, yet when they see a sign they turn away and call it magic. On the Day the Caller calls, they will come out of the graves like scattered locusts. The people of Nuh called him a madman and drove him away. He called on his Lord, the sky poured and the earth burst with springs, and he was carried on a ship of planks and nails. ‘Ad denied, and a screaming wind plucked them away like the trunks of uprooted palm trees. Thamud refused to follow one man from among them. They were sent a she-camel as a test, with the water shared by turn, but they hamstrung her, and a single blast left them like dry twigs. The people of Lut disputed the warnings and demanded his guests. A storm of stones came upon them, while his family was saved before dawn. Pharaoh’s people denied all the signs and were seized. Are today’s disbelievers better than those? The criminals will be dragged into the Fire on their faces. Everything was created in due measure, Allah’s command comes like the blink of an eye, and every deed, small and great, is written down. The righteous will be among gardens and rivers, in a seat of truth near a Sovereign, All-Powerful.