For each We set forth ˹various˺ lessons, and We ultimately destroyed each.
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
They have certainly passed by the city ˹of Sodom˺, which had been showered with a dreadful rain ˹of stones˺. Have they not seen its ruins? But they do not expect to be resurrected.
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
When they see you ˹O Prophet˺, they only make fun of you, ˹saying,˺ “Is this the one that Allah has sent as a messenger?
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
He would have almost tricked us away from our gods, had we not been so devoted to them.” ˹But˺ soon they will know, when they face the punishment, who is far astray from the ˹Right˺ Way.
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
Have you seen ˹O Prophet˺ the one who has taken their own desires as their god? Will you then be a keeper over them?
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
Or do you think that most of them listen or understand?1 They are only like cattle—no, more than that, they are astray from the ˹Right˺ Way!2
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
Have you not seen how your Lord extends the shade—He could have simply made it ˹remain˺ still if He so willed—then We make the sun its guide,
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
causing the shade to retreat gradually?1
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
He is the One Who has made the night for you as a cover, and ˹made˺ sleep for resting, and the day for rising.
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
And He is the One Who sends the winds ushering in His mercy, and We send down pure rain from the sky,
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
giving life to a lifeless land, and providing water for countless animals and humans of Our Own creation.
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran