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And who, then, does more wrong than one who prevents God's name from being mentioned in God's places of prostration, and endeavors to dismantle them?

And when he turns his back, he endeavours on the earth to sow corruption in it, and to annihilate tilth and offspring.

And whoever wants the last life and endeavours for it with the effort it deserves, while being a believer — those are the ones whose effort will be acknowledged.

for the Hour is coming — I keep it almost hidden — so that every Self may be recompensed for what it has endeavoured.

He threw it down, and behold, it became a snake, moving swiftly.

And behold, their ropes and their staffs, through their illusion, appeared to him to be moving swiftly.

And a man came hurrying from the far end of the Capital.

And a man came hurrying from the far end of the Capital.

and that the human being will have nothing but what he has endeavoured,

The Day you will see the believing men and believing women, their light hurrying before them and on their right.

O you who have believed! Turn back to God with a sincere turning back. It may be that your Guardian will cover your misdeeds and admit you into gardens beneath which rivers flow, on the day when God will not disgrace the Informant nor those who believed with him; their light will hurry before them and on their right.

So he showed him the greatest sign; but he denied and disobeyed. Then he turned his back, endeavouring, and gathered, and called out, and said, "I am your master, the most high." So God seized him with the exemplary deterrent of the last life and the first.

Then, when the great Cataclysm comes — the Day the human being will remember what he endeavoured, and the Blaze will be shown to whoever sees,

But as for him who came to you hurrying, and he dreads, from him you are distracted. By no means!