Today every soul will be rewarded for what it has done. No injustice Today! Surely Allah is swift in reckoning.”
40:17
Warn them ˹O Prophet˺ of the approaching Day when the hearts will jump into the throats, suppressing distress. The wrongdoers will have neither a close friend nor intercessor to be heard.
40:18
Allah ˹even˺ knows the sly glances of the eyes and whatever the hearts conceal.
40:19
And Allah judges with the truth, while those ˹idols˺ they invoke besides Him cannot judge at all. Indeed, Allah ˹alone˺ is the All-Hearing, All-Seeing.
40:20
Have they not travelled throughout the land to see what was the end of those ˹destroyed˺ before them? They were far superior in might and ˹richer in˺ monuments throughout the land. But Allah seized them for their sins, and they had no protector from Allah.
40:21
That was because their messengers used to come to them with clear proofs, but they persisted in disbelief. So Allah seized them. Surely He is All-Powerful, severe in punishment.
40:22
Indeed, We sent Moses with Our signs and compelling proof
40:23
to Pharaoh, Hamân, and Korah. But they responded: “Magician! Total liar!”
40:24
Then, when he came to them with the truth from Us, they said, “Kill the sons of those who believe with him and keep their women.” But the plotting of the disbelievers was only in vain.
40:25