Quran — Page 601

CONSIDER the flight of time!

Verily, man is bound to lose himself

unless he be of those who attain to faith, and do good works, and enjoin upon one another the keeping to truth, and enjoin upon one another patience in adversity.

WOE unto every slanderer, fault-finder!

[Woe unto him who amasses wealth and counts it a safeguard,

thinking that his wealth will make him live forever!

Nay, but [in the life to come such as] he shall indeed be abandoned to crushing torment!

And what could make thee conceive what that crushing torment will be?

A fire kindled by God,

which will rise over the [guilty] hearts:

verily, it will close in upon them

in endless columns!

ART THOU NOT aware of how thy Sustainer dealt with the Army of the Elephant?

Did He not utterly confound their artful planning?

Thus, He let loose upon them great swarms of flying creatures

which smote them with stone-hard blows of chastisement pre-ordained,

and caused them to become like a field of grain that has been eaten down to stubble