Indeed, the wicked will be in the torment of Hell forever.
          
            43:74
          
        
        
          It will never be lightened for them, and there they will be overwhelmed with despair.
          
            43:75
          
        
        
          We did not wrong them, but it was they who were the wrongdoers.
          
            43:76
          
        
        
          They will cry, “O Mâlik!1 Let your Lord finish us off.” He will answer, “You are definitely here to stay.”
          
            43:77
          
        
        
          We certainly brought the truth to you, but most of you were resentful of the truth.
          
            43:78
          
        
        
          Or have they mastered some ˹evil˺ plan? Then We ˹too˺ are surely planning.
          
            43:79
          
        
        
          Or do they think that We do not hear their ˹evil˺ thoughts and secret talks? Yes ˹We do˺! And Our messenger-angels are in their presence, recording ˹it all˺.
          
            43:80
          
        
        
          Say, ˹O Prophet,˺ “If the Most Compassionate ˹really˺ had offspring, I would be the first worshipper.”
          
            43:81
          
        
        
          Glorified is the Lord of the heavens and the earth, the Lord of the Throne, far above what they claim.
          
            43:82
          
        
        
          So let them indulge ˹in falsehood˺ and amuse ˹themselves˺ until they face their Day, which they have been warned of.
          
            43:83
          
        
        
          He Alone is ˹the only True˺ God in the heavens and ˹the only True˺ God on earth. For He is the All-Wise, All-Knowing.
          
            43:84
          
        
        
          And Blessed is the One to Whom belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth and everything in between! With Him ˹alone˺ is the knowledge of the Hour. And to Him you will ˹all˺ be returned.
          
            43:85
          
        
        
          ˹But˺ those ˹objects of worship˺ they invoke besides Him have no right to intercede, except those who testify to the truth knowingly.1
          
            43:86
          
        
        
          If you ask them ˹O Prophet˺ who created them, they will certainly say, “Allah!” How can they then be deluded ˹from the truth˺?
          
            43:87
          
        
        
          ˹Allah is Aware of˺ the Prophet’s cry: “O my Lord! Indeed, these are a people who persist in disbelief.”
          
            43:88
          
        
        
          So bear with them and respond with peace. They will soon come to know.
          
            43:89