:71. He said: "There are my daughters (to marry), if ye must act (so)."
:72. Verily, by thy life (O Prophet), in their wild intoxication, they wander in distraction, to and fro.
:73. But the (mighty) Blast overtook them before morning,
:74. And We turned (the cities) upside down, and rained down on them brimstones hard as baked clay.
:75. Behold! in this are Signs for those who by tokens do understand.
:76. And the (cities were) right on the high-road.
:77. Behold! in this is a sign for those who believed.
:78. And the Companions of the Wood were also wrong-doers;
:79. So We exacted retribution from them. They were both on an open highway, plain to see.
:80. The Companions of the Rocky Tract also rejected the messengers:
:81. We sent them Our Signs, but they persisted in turning away from them.
:82. Out of the mountains did they hew (their) edifices, (feeling themselves) secure.
:83. But the (mighty) Blast seized them of a morning,
:84. And of no avail to them was all that they did (with such art and care)!
:85. We created not the heavens, the earth, and all between them, but for just ends. And the Hour is surely coming (when this will be manifest). So overlook (any human faults) with gracious forgiveness.
:86. For verily it is thy Lord who is the Master-Creator, knowing all things.
:87. And We have bestowed upon thee the Seven Oft-repeated (verses) and the Grand Qur'an.
:88. Strain not thine eyes. (Wistfully) at what We have bestowed on certain classes of them, nor grieve over them: but lower thy wing (in gentleness) to the believers.
:89. And say: "I am indeed he that warneth openly and without ambiguity,"-
:90. (Of just such wrath) as We sent down on those who divided (Scripture into arbitrary parts),-
