[15.1] AlifLaamRa. Those are the verses of the Book, the Clear Koran.
[15.2] It could be that those who disbelieve will wish that they were Muslims.
[15.3] Let them eat and enjoy; and let their hopes deceive them, soon they shall know.
[15.4] We never destroyed a village whose term had not already been decreed.
[15.5] No nation can outstrip its term, nor do they put it back.
[15.6] They say: 'You to whom the Remembrance is sent down, you are indeed mad.
[15.7] Why do you not bring down the angels, if what you say is true.'
[15.8] We do not send angels except with the truth. Then they shall have no respite.
[15.9] It is We who sent down the Koran, and We watch over it.
[15.10] We have sent forth before you Messengers among the factions of the ancients.
[15.11] But no Messenger came to them except he was mocked.
[15.12] So We make it enter the hearts of the sinners.
[15.13] They do not believe in it even though the practice of the ancients has already gone.
[15.14] If We opened a gate in the heaven and they kept ascending through it,
[15.15] still they would say: 'Our eyes were dazzled; truly, we must have been a bewitched people.'
[15.16] We have set constellations in the heavens and made them pleasing to the beholders,
[15.17] and guarded them from every stoned satan.
[15.18] Except for he who steals the listening and is then pursued by a visible flame.
[15.19] We have spread out the earth and set upon it firm mountains. Everything We
have caused to grow therein is justly weighed;
[15.20] and there appointed for you is a livelihood, and for those you do not provide.
[15.21] And there is not a thing but with Us are its treasuries, and We do not send it down except in a known measure.
[15.22] We send the winds fertilizing, and We send down out of heaven water, from
which you drink and you are not its treasurers.
[15.23] And surely, it is We who give life and make to die. We are the Inheritor.
[15.24] We know those of you who press forward, and We know the laggards,
[15.25] and it is your Lord who will gather them. He is Wise, Knowing.
[15.26] We created mankind from clay, molded from mud,
[15.27] and before him We created the jinn from smokeless fire.
[15.28] When your Lord said to the angels: 'See, I am creating a mortal from clay of molded mud.
[15.29] When I have shaped him and ran My created soul in him fall down prostrating towards him'.
[15.30] All the angels prostrated themselves,
[15.31] except iblis (father of the jinn) who refused to be one of those who prostrated themselves.
[15.32] He said: 'iblis, what is the matter with you, that you do you not prostrate yourself?'
[15.33] He replied: 'I will not prostrate to a mortal You have created of clay, from molded mud.'
[15.34] (Allah) said: 'Begone, you are accursed!
[15.35] A curse shall be on you till the Day of Recompense.'
