7.51 . Who took their religion for a sport and pastime , and whom the life of the world beguiled . So this day We have forgotten them even as they forgot the meeting of this Day and as they used to deny Our tokens .
7. 7.52 . Verily We have brought them a Scripture which We expound with knowledge , a guidance and a mercy for a people who believe .
7. 7.53 . Await they aught save the fulfillment thereof? On the day when the fulfillment thereof cometh , those who were before forgetful thereof will say : The messengers of our Lord did bring the Truth ! Have we any intercessors , that they may intercede for us? Or can we be returned ( to life on earth ) , that we may act otherwise than we used to act? They have lost their souls , and that which they devised bath failed them .
7. 7.54 . Lo! your Lord is Allah Who created the heavens and the earth in six Days , then mounted He the Throne . He covereth the night with the day , which is in haste to follow it , and hath made the sun and the moon and the stars subservient by His command . His verily is all creation and commandment Blessed be Allah , the Lord of the Worlds!
7. 7.55 . O mankind! ) Call upon your Lord humbly and in secret . Lo! He loveth not aggressors .
7. 7.56 . Work not confusion in the earth after the fair ordering ( thereof ) , and call on Him in fear and hope . Lo! the mercy of Allah is nigh unto the good .
7. 7.57 . And He it is Who sendeth the winds as tidings heralding His mercy , till , when they bear a cloud heavy ( with rain ) , We lead it to a dead land , and then cause water to descend thereon , and thereby bring forth fruits of every kind . Thus bring We forth the dead . Haply ye may remember .
7. 7.58 . As for the good land , its vegetation cometh forth by permission of its Lord ; while as for that which is bad , only evil cometh forth ( from it ) . Thus do We recount the tokens for people who give thanks .
7. 7.59 . We sent Noah ( of old ) unto his people , and he said : O my people! Serve Allah . Ye have no other God save Him . Lo! I fear for you the retribution of an Awful Day .
7. 7.60 . The chieftains of his people said : Lo! we see thee surely in plain error .
