21. Al-Anbiyaa' - (The Prophets)

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [21:1]
Closer and closer to mankind comes their Reckoning: yet they heed not and they turn away.
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [21:2]
Never comes (aught) to them of a renewed Message from their Lord, but they listen to it as in jest,-
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [21:3]
Their hearts toying as with trifles. The wrong-doers conceal their private counsels, (saying), "Is this (one) more than a man like yourselves? Will ye go to witchcraft with your eyes open?"
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [21:4]
Say: "My Lord knoweth (every) word (spoken) in the heavens and on earth: He is the One that heareth and knoweth (all things)."
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [21:5]
"Nay," they say, "(these are) medleys of dream! - Nay, He forged it! - Nay, He is (but) a poet! Let him then bring us a Sign like the ones that were sent to (Prophets) of old!"
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [21:6]
(As to those) before them, not one of the populations which We destroyed believed: will these believe?
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [21:7]
Before thee, also, the messengers We sent were but men, to whom We granted inspiration: If ye realise this not, ask of those who possess the Message.
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [21:8]
Nor did We give them bodies that ate no food, nor were they exempt from death.
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [21:9]
In the end We fulfilled to them Our Promise, and We saved them and those whom We pleased, but We destroyed those who transgressed beyond bounds.
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [21:10]
We have revealed for you (O men!) a book in which is a Message for you: will ye not then understand?
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [21:11]
How many were the populations We utterly destroyed because of their iniquities, setting up in their places other peoples?
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [21:12]
Yet, when they felt Our Punishment (coming), behold, they (tried to) flee from it.
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [21:13]
Flee not, but return to the good things of this life which were given you, and to your homes in order that ye may be called to account.
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [21:14]
They said: "Ah! woe to us! We were indeed wrong-doers!"
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [21:15]
And that cry of theirs ceased not, till We made them as a field that is mown, as ashes silent and quenched.