39* If only the Unbelievers knew (the time) when they will not be able to ward off the fire from their faces, nor yet from their backs, and (when) no help can reach them!  
| |40* Nay, it may come to them all of a sudden and confound them: no power will they have then to avert it, nor will they (then) get respite.  
| |41* Mocked were (many) messengers before thee; but their scoffers were hemmed in by the thing that they mocked.  
| |42* Say: "Who can keep you safe by night and by day from (the Wrath of) the Most Gracious?" Yet they turn away from the mention of their Lord.  
| |43* Or have they gods that can guard them from Us? They have no power to aid themselves, nor can they be defended from Us.  
| |44* Nay, We gave the good things of this life to these men and their fathers until the period grew long for them; See they not that We gradually reduce the land (in their control) from its outlying borders? Is it then they who will win?  
| |45* Say, "I do but warn you according to revelation": but the deaf will not hear the call, (even) when they are warned!  
| |46* If but a breath of the Wrath of thy Lord do touch them, they will then say, "Woe to us! we did wrong indeed!"  
| |47* We shall set up scales of justice for the Day of Judgment, so that not a soul will be dealt with unjustly in the least, and if there be (no more than) the weight of a mustard seed, We will bring it (to account): and enough are We to take account.  
| |48* In the past We granted to Moses and Aaron the criterion (for judgment), and a Light and a Message for those who would do right,-  
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