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Or like a torrential rain from the sky, in which there are darknesses, thunder, and lightning:

and give good news to the patient, those who, when misfortune strikes them, say: "We are indeed God's, and it is to Him that we return."

His example is that of a smooth rock covered with earth: a torrential rain strikes it, and leaves it bare.

And the example of those who spend their goods, seeking the good pleasure of God and the strengthening of their own Selves, is that of a garden on a height: a torrential rain strikes it, and it gives its fare twofold; and if no torrential rain strikes it, then a drizzle.

Would one of you like to have a garden of palm trees and vines, beneath which rivers flow, wherein he would have all kinds of fruits, then old age strikes him, while he has weak descendants, and a whirlwind of fire strikes the garden, and it burns?

The example of what they spend in this present life is that of an icy wind, which strikes the tilth of a people who have wronged themselves, and annihilates it.

and if evil strikes you, they rejoice at it.

They did not slacken for what struck them in the way of God, did not weaken, and did not bend.

When you were climbing, without turning back to anyone, while the messenger was calling you, at the rear of your ranks; He then requited you with anguish upon anguish, so that you would not grieve either for what you had missed, or for what had struck you.

How then, when misfortune strikes you, after you had caused double that to strike, do you say: "From where, then, does this come?"

And what struck you, on the day the two forces met, was with God's permission, and so that He might distinguish the believers, and distinguish those who practiced hypocrisy,

They exult in a blessing from God and a favor, and that God does not let the reward of the believers dissipate, those who responded to God and to the messenger after the wound had struck them.

How then, when misfortune strikes them for what their hands have prepared, do they then come to you, taking oaths by God: "We wanted only good and reconciliation"?

and if misfortune strikes you, he says: "God has blessed me, since I was not with them as a witness."

But if a favor from God betides you, he will surely say, as if there had been no affection between you and him: "Would that I had been with them, I would then have attained an immense triumph!"

And if good betides them, they say: "This is from God";

and if evil strikes them, they say: "This is from you."

What betides you of good comes from God,

and what strikes you of evil comes from yourself.

And if they turn their backs, know then that God wants only to strike them for a part of their offenses.

You see those in whose cores is a sickness speeding among them, saying: "We dread that a setback may strike us";

O you who have believed! Testimony between you, when death presents itself to one of you, at the time of the testament: two just ones among you, or two others, outside your circle, if you travel through the land and the calamity of death strikes you.

A diminishment before God, and a severe punishment, will strike those who cut themselves off, for having plotted.

Are those who inherit the earth after its inhabitants not then guided by this: if We willed, We would strike them for their offenses,

and if evil strikes them, they attribute it to an ill omen from Moussa and those with him.

He said: "My punishment, I strike with it whom I will,

And guard yourselves against a trial that will not strike only those among you who have done wrong,

If good betides you, it vexes them,

and if misfortune strikes you, they say: "We had already taken our precautions before" — and they turn their backs, rejoicing.

Say: "Nothing will strike us except what God has decreed for us;

And we, we anticipate for you that God strike you with a punishment from Himself, or by our hands.

A painful punishment will strike those among them who disowned.

That is because no thirst, no fatigue, no dearth strikes them in the way of God, no step they tread irritates those who disown, and no gain from an enemy accrues to them, without a sound deed being inscribed for them because of it.

He makes it betide whom He wills among His obedient ones.

What strikes them will also strike her.

O my people, let not your rupture with me cause what struck the people of Nuh, or the people of Hud, or the people of Salih, to strike you;

and He sends the thunderbolt, and strikes with it whom He wills, while they argue about God; and He is of a formidable vigor.

And those who disown will not cease to be struck, for what they have done, by a sudden crash, or it will alight near their abode, until God's promise comes:

The evils of what they did overtook them,

And among mankind is he who obeys God in a skewed manner: if good betides him, he is calmed by it, but if a trial strikes him, he turns back on his face — losing both the present life and the last life.

And give good news to those who are lowly, whose cores tremble when God is remembered, who are patient with what strikes them, who maintain the Contact, and who spend from what We have provided them.

And He sends down from the sky, from mountains therein, hail, with which He strikes whom He wills, and which He turns away from whom He wills;

Let those who oppose his order beware lest a trial strike them, or a painful punishment strike them.

And were it not that, when a misfortune strikes them for what their hands have prepared, they might say: "Our Guardian, why did You not send us a messenger, that we might have followed Your signs and been among the believers" —

but if evil strikes them for what their hands have prepared, behold, they lose heart.

Then when He makes it betide whom He wills of His obedient ones, behold, they exult,

and be patient with what strikes you:

So We subjected the wind to him, running at his command, gently, wherever he aimed; and the Diverters, every builder and diver, and others bound together in fetters.

The evil consequences of what they earned struck them;

and those among these who do wrong will be struck by the evil consequences of what they earned, and they will not be able to render Him powerless.

And a believing man from the clan of Fir'awn, who withheld his faith, said: "Will you kill a man for saying, 'My Guardian is God,' when he has brought you clear proofs from your Guardian? If he is lying, his lie is upon him; and if he is veracious, some of what he promises you will strike you.

And whatever affliction strikes you is because of what your own hands have earned — and He overlooks much.

and for those who, when iniquity strikes them, help themselves.

but if an evil strikes them because of what their hands have prepared, then the human being is indeed greatly given to disowning.

And had it not been for believing men and believing women whom you did not know, whom you might have trampled underfoot, so that an injury would have struck you because of them without your knowing — so that God might admit into His benevolence whom He wills.

O you who have believed! If an overstepper brings you a piece of information, distinguish clearly, lest you set upon a people out of ignorance and then become, over what you have done, full of regret.

No calamity strikes the earth or yourselves except that it is in a register even before We acquit it.

No calamity strikes except by the permission of God.

the Day the Influx and the Agents will stand in ranks, none speaking except one to whom the All-Benevolent has given permission, and who will say what is right.