In the name of Allah, Beneficent, the Merciful. Beneficent God! The revelation of the Book is from Allah, the Mighty, the Knowing, Forgiver of sin and Acceptor of repentance, Severe to punish, Lord of bounty. There is no God but He; to Him is the eventual coming. None dispute concerning the messages of Allah but those who disbelieve, so let not their control in the land deceive thee. Before them the people of Noah and the parties after them rejected (prophets), and every nation purposed against its messenger to destroy him, and disputed by means of falsehood to render null thereby the truth, so I seized them; how (terrible) was then My retribution! And thus did the word of thy Lord prove true against those who disbelieve that they are the companions of the Fire. Those who bear the Th