:32. Is it that their faculties of understanding urge them to this, or are they but a people transgressing beyond bounds?
:33. Or do they say, "He fabricated the (Message)"? Nay, they have no faith!
:34. Let them then produce a recital like unto it,- If (it be) they speak the truth!
:35. Were they created of nothing, or were they themselves the creators?
:36. Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Nay, they have no firm belief.
:37. Or are the Treasures of thy Lord with them, or are they the managers (of affairs)?
:38. Or have they a ladder, by which they can (climb up to heaven and) listen (to its secrets)? Then let (such a) listener of theirs produce a manifest proof.
:39. Or has He only daughters and ye have sons?
:40. Or is it that thou dost ask for a reward, so that they are burdened with a load of debt?-
:41. Or that the Unseen in it their hands, and they write it down?
:42. Or do they intend a plot (against thee)? But those who defy Allah are themselves involved in a Plot!
:43. Or have they a god other than Allah? Exalted is Allah far above the things they associate with Him!
:44. Were they to see a piece of the sky falling (on them), they would (only) say: "Clouds gathered in heaps!"
:45. So leave them alone until they encounter that Day of theirs, wherein they shall (perforce) swoon (with terror),-
:46. The Day when their plotting will avail them nothing and no help shall be given them.
:47. And verily, for those who do wrong, there is another punishment besides this: But most of them understand not.
:48. Now await in patience the command of thy Lord: for verily thou art in Our eyes: and celebrate the praises of thy Lord the while thou standest forth,
:49. And for part of the night also praise thou Him,- and at the retreat of the stars!
