Quran — Page 269

And he has placed firm mountains on earth, lest it sway with you, and rivers and paths, so that you might find your way,

as well as [various other] means of orientation: for [it is] by the stars that men find their way.

IS, THEN, HE who creates comparable to any [being] that cannot create? Will you not, then, bethink yourselves?

For, should you try to count God's blessings, you could never compute them! Behold, God is indeed much-forgiving, a dispenser of grace;

and God knows all that you keep secret as well as all that you bring into the open.

Now those beings that some people invoke beside God cannot create anything, since they themselves are but created:

they are dead, not living, and they do not [even] know when they will be raised from the dead!

Your God is the One God: but because of their false pride, the hearts of those who do not believe in the life to come refuse to admit this [truth].

Truly, God knows all that they keep secret as well as all that they bring into the open -[and,] behold, He does not love those who are given to arrogance,

and [who], whenever they are asked, "What is it that your Sustainer has bestowed from on high?"-are wont to answer, "Fables of ancient times!"

Hence, on Resurrection Day they shall bear the full weight of their own burdens, as well as some of the burdens of those ignorant ones whom they have led astray: oh, how evil the load with which they shall be burdened!

Those who lived before them did, too, devise many a blasphemy -whereupon God visited with destruction all that they had ever built, [striking] at its very foundations, so that the roof fell in upon them from above and suffering befell them without their having perceived whence it came.