:96. If the people of the towns had but believed and feared Allah, We should indeed have opened out to them (All kinds of) blessings from heaven and earth; but they rejected (the truth), and We brought them to book for their misdeeds.
:97. Did the people of the towns feel secure against the coming of Our wrath by night while they were asleep?
:98. Or else did they feel secure against its coming in broad daylight while they played about (care-free)?
:99. Did they then feel secure against the plan of Allah?- but no one can feel secure from the Plan of Allah, except those (doomed) to ruin!
:100. To those who inherit the earth in succession to its (previous) possessors, is it not a guiding, (lesson) that, if We so willed, We could punish them (too) for their sins, and seal up their hearts so that they could not hear?
:101. Such were the towns whose story We (thus) relate unto thee: There came indeed to them their messengers with clear (signs): But they would not believe what they had rejected before. Thus doth Allah seal up the hearts of those who reject faith.
:102. Most of them We found not men (true) to their covenant: but most of them We found rebellious and disobedient.
:103. Then after them We sent Moses with Our signs to Pharaoh and his chiefs, but they wrongfully rejected them: So see what was the end of those who made mischief.
:104. Moses said: "O Pharaoh! I am a messenger from the Lord of the worlds,-
