Ayah 1
Alif, Lām, Rā. These are the verses of the Book and a clear Qur’ān [i.e., recitation].
Ayah 2
Perhaps those who disbelieve will wish that they had been Muslims.
Ayah 3
Let them eat and enjoy themselves and be diverted by [false] hope, for they are going to know.
Ayah 4
And We did not destroy any city but that for it was a known decree.
Ayah 5
No nation will precede its term, nor will they remain thereafter.
Ayah 6
And they say, "O you upon whom the message has been sent down, indeed you are mad.
Ayah 7
Why do you not bring us the angels, if you should be among the truthful?"
Ayah 8
We do not send down the angels except with truth; and they [i.e., the disbelievers] would not then be reprieved.