Surah Ghafir

وَيُرِيكُمْءَايَٰتِهِۦفَأَىَّءَايَٰتِٱللَّهِتُنكِرُونَ

And [thus] He displays His wonders before you: which, then, of God’s wonders can you still deny?

أَفَلَمْيَسِيرُوا۟فِىٱلْأَرْضِفَيَنظُرُوا۟كَيْفَكَانَعَٰقِبَةُٱلَّذِينَمِنقَبْلِهِمْكَانُوٓا۟أَكْثَرَمِنْهُمْوَأَشَدَّقُوَّةًۭوَءَاثَارًۭافِىٱلْأَرْضِفَمَآأَغْنَىٰعَنْهُممَّاكَانُوا۟يَكْسِبُونَ

HAVE THEY, then, never journeyed about the earth and beheld what happened in the end to those [deniers of the truth] who lived before their time? More numerous were they, and greater in power than they are, and in the impact which they left on earth: but all that they ever achieved was of no avail to them –

فَلَمَّاجَآءَتْهُمْرُسُلُهُمبِٱلْبَيِّنَٰتِفَرِحُوا۟بِمَاعِندَهُممِّنَٱلْعِلْمِوَحَاقَبِهِممَّاكَانُوا۟بِهِۦيَسْتَهْزِءُونَ

for when their apostles came to them with all evidence of the truth, they arrogantly exulted in whatever knowledge they [already] possessed: and [so, in the end,] they were overwhelmed by the very thing which they were wont to deride.

فَلَمَّارَأَوْا۟بَأْسَنَاقَالُوٓا۟ءَامَنَّابِٱللَّهِوَحْدَهُۥوَكَفَرْنَابِمَاكُنَّابِهِۦمُشْرِكِينَ

And then, when they [clearly] beheld Our punishment, they said: “We have come to believe in the One God, and we have renounced all belief in that to which we were wont to ascribe a share in His divinity!”

فَلَمْيَكُيَنفَعُهُمْإِيمَٰنُهُمْلَمَّارَأَوْا۟بَأْسَنَاسُنَّتَٱللَّهِٱلَّتِىقَدْخَلَتْفِىعِبَادِهِۦوَخَسِرَهُنَالِكَٱلْكَٰفِرُونَ

But their attaining to faith after they had beheld Our punishment could not possibly benefit them such being the way of God that has always obtained for His creatures -: and so, then and there, lost were they who had denied the truth.