On the Day when matters become dire, they will be invited to prostrate themselves but will be prevented from doing so,

and their eyes will be downcast and they will be overwhelmed with shame: they were invited to prostrate themselves when they were safe [but refused].

يَوْمَ يُكْشَفُ عَن سَاقࣲ وَيُدْعَوْنَ إِلَى ٱلسُّجُودِ فَلَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ

خَٰشِعَةً أَبْصَٰرُهُمْ تَرْهَقُهُمْ ذِلَّةࣱۖ وَقَدْ كَانُوا۟ يُدْعَوْنَ إِلَى ٱلسُّجُودِ وَهُمْ سَٰلِمُونَ

So [Prophet] leave those who reject this revelation to Me: We shall lead them on, step by step, in ways beyond their knowledge;

I will allow them more time, for My plan is powerful.

Do you demand some reward from them that would burden them with debt?

Do they have knowledge of the unseen that enables them to write it down?

Wait patiently [Prophet] for your Lord’s judgement: do not be like the man in the whale who called out in distress:

if his Lord’s grace had not reached him, he would have been left, abandoned and blameworthy, on the barren shore,

but his Lord chose him and made him one of the Righteous.

The disbelievers almost strike you down with their looks when they hear the Quran. They say, ‘He must be mad!’

but truly it is nothing other than a Reminder for all peoples.

فَذَرْنِي وَمَن يُكَذِّبُ بِهَٰذَا ٱلْحَدِيثِۖ سَنَسْتَدْرِجُهُم مِّنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ

وَأُمْلِي لَهُمْۚ إِنَّ كَيْدِي مَتِينٌ

أَمْ تَسْـَٔلُهُمْ أَجْرࣰا فَهُم مِّن مَّغْرَمࣲ مُّثْقَلُونَ

أَمْ عِندَهُمُ ٱلْغَيْبُ فَهُمْ يَكْتُبُونَ

فَٱصْبِرْ لِحُكْمِ رَبِّكَ وَلَا تَكُن كَصَاحِبِ ٱلْحُوتِ إِذْ نَادَىٰ وَهُوَ مَكْظُومࣱ

لَّوْلَآ أَن تَدَٰرَكَهُۥ نِعْمَةࣱ مِّن رَّبِّهِۦ لَنُبِذَ بِٱلْعَرَآءِ وَهُوَ مَذْمُومࣱ

فَٱجْتَبَٰهُ رَبُّهُۥ فَجَعَلَهُۥ مِنَ ٱلصَّٰلِحِينَ

وَإِن يَكَادُ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ لَيُزْلِقُونَكَ بِأَبْصَٰرِهِمْ لَمَّا سَمِعُوا۟ ٱلذِّكْرَ وَيَقُولُونَ إِنَّهُۥ لَمَجْنُونࣱ

وَمَا هُوَ إِلَّا ذِكْرࣱ لِّلْعَٰلَمِينَ