In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. I, Allah, am the Best Knower. 'These are verses of the Book of Wisdom -- A guidance and a mercy for the doers of good, Who keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate and who are certain of the Hereafter. These are on a guidance from their Lord, and these are they who are successful. And of men is he who takes instead frivolous discourse to lead astray from Allah's path without knowledge, and to make it a mockery. For such is an abasing chastisement. And when Our messages are recited to him, he turns back proudly, as if he had not heard them, as if there were deafness in his ears; so announce to him a painful chastisement. Those who believe and do good, for them are Gardens of bliss, To abide therein. A promise of Allah in truth! And He