(On that occasion Allah will ask them this question also:) "O race of jinn and men, did not the Messengers come to you from among yourselves, who recited My Revelations to you and warned you of the consequences you shall meet with on this Day?" They will reply, "Yes, they did. We bear witness against ourselves. "98 Today this worldly life has deluded them, but at that time, they will themselves bear witness against their selves that they were disbelievers.99 (This testimony will be taken from them in order to prove that) your Lord would not destroy the habitations unjustly, while their dwellers were ignorant of the Reality.100 The grade of everyone (for recompense) is determined in accordance with his deeds: and your Lord is not unaware of the deeds of the people. Your Lord is All-Sufficient and is full of compassion.101 If He wills, He may remove you and replace you by whomever He wills, just as He raised you from the offspring of other people. Indeed, the thing which you are being promised shall most surely come;102 and you have no power to frustrate Allah. O Muhammad, say, "O people, you may do whatever you like in your own way and I am doing whatever I deem right;103 but you shall soon know who comes out successful in the end; anyhow the fact is that the workers of iniquity can never attain true success." These people104 have assigned a portion to Allah out of the tillage and the cattle He Himself has created, and say, "This is for Allah," so presume they "and this is for the partners105 we have set up with Him." Then the portion assigned to the partners of their own making does not reach Allah, but that assigned to Allah reaches the partners set up by them.106 What evil decisions they make! And likewise, those whom the mushrikin believe to have a share in Allah's Godhead have made the killing of their own children seem fair to them107 in order to lead them to ruin108 and confuse them in their religion.109 Had Allah willed, they would not have done so; therefore, leave them busy in their false accusations.110 They say, these cattle and crops are reserved; only those people can eat them, whom we allow. In fact, this is a restriction they themselves have imposed.111 Then there are some animals which have been forbidden for riding and carrying loads, and there are other animals over which they do not pronounce the name of Allah.112 They have falsely attributed all this to Allah113 before long Allah will recompense them for all that they have falsely attributed to Him. And they say, "Whatever is within the bellies of these cattle is reserved for our males and forbidden to our females, but if it is dead, both may partake of it.114 Allah will surely recompense them for the things they have fabricated; indeed, He is All Wise, All Knowing. Most surely they became losers, who, in their folly and ignorance killed their own children, and made unlawful what Allah had provided them as sustenance falsely ascribing prohibitions to Allah. Surely they went astray and were not at all rightly guided.115