15. Al-Hijr - (The Rocky Tract)

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [15:1]
A. L. R. These are the Ayats of Revelation,- of a Qur'an that makes things clear.
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [15:2]
Again and again will those who disbelieve, wish that they had bowed (to Allah's will) in Islam.
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [15:3]
Leave them alone, to enjoy (the good things of this life) and to please themselves: let (false) hope amuse them: soon will knowledge (undeceive them).
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [15:4]
Never did We destroy a population that had not a term decreed and assigned beforehand.
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [15:5]
Neither can a people anticipate its term, nor delay it.
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [15:6]
They say: "O thou to whom the Message is being revealed! truly thou art mad (or possessed)!
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [15:7]
"Why bringest thou not angels to us if it be that thou hast the Truth?"
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [15:8]
We send not the angels down except for just cause: if they came (to the ungodly), behold! no respite would they have!
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [15:9]
We have, without doubt, sent down the Message; and We will assuredly guard it (from corruption).
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [15:10]
We did send messengers before thee amongst the religious sects of old:
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [15:11]
But never came a messenger to them but they mocked him.
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [15:12]
Even so do we let it creep into the hearts of the sinners -
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [15:13]
That they should not believe in the (Message); but the ways of the ancients have passed away.
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [15:14]
Even if We opened out to them a gate from heaven, and they were to continue (all day) ascending therein,
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [15:15]
They would only say: "Our eyes have been intoxicated: Nay, we have been bewitched by sorcery."