The revelation of this Book is from the All-Mighty, the All-Wise Allah.1 (O Muhammad,) We have sent down this Book to you with the truth,2 so worship Allah alone, making your religion His exclusively.3 Beware! Religion is exclusively Allah's right.4 As for those who have taken other guardians besides Him (and justify their conduct, saying): "We worship them only that they may bring us closer to Allah."5 Allah will surely judge between them concerning all that in which they differ.6 Allah does not show guidance to any liar and denier of the truth.7 Had Allah willed to take a son, He would have chosen anyone He pleased out of His creation.8 Glorified is He (that He should have a son)! He is Allah, the One, the Omnipotent.9 He has created the heavens and the earth with the truth.10 He it is Who wraps the night about the day and the day about the night . He has so subjected the sun and the moon that each is moving till an appointed time. Note it well: He is the All-Mighty, the All-Forgiving.11 It is He Who created you from a single being, then from that being He created its mate,12 and it is He Who created for you eight heads of cattle, male and female.13 He shapes you in your mothers' wombs, giving you one form after the other, under three dark veils.14 This same Allah (Whose works are these) is your Lord15 Sovereignty is His.16 There is no god but He.17 Whence are you, then, being turned away?18 If you disbelieve, Allah is independent of you.19 Yet He does not approve of disbelief for His servants.20 And if you are thankful, He approves it for you.21 No bearer will bear the burden of another.22 Ultimately, all of you have to return to your Lord. Then He will tell you what You have been doing. He knows even the secrets of the hearts. When an affliction befalls man,23 he calls upon his Lord, turning to Him (in penitence).24 Then, when his Lord blesses him with his favor, he forgets the affliction for which he was calling upon Him before,25 and sets up others as equals with Allah,26 to lead astray from His way.27 (O Prophet,) Tell him; "Enjoy your disbelief for a while: you shall certainly go to Hell.” (Whose conduct is better, this man or the man) who is obedient, who passes the hours of night standing and prostrating (in worship), and who dreads the Hereafter and hopes for the mercy of his Lord? Ask them, "Can those who know and those who do not know ever be equal?"28 Only men of understanding do accept the admonition.