8:31
When Our Signs are rehearsed to them, they say: "We have heard this (before): if we wished, we could say (words)
like these: these are nothing but tales of the ancients."
8:32
Remember how they said: "O Allah if this is indeed the Truth from Thee, rain down on us a shower of stones form the
sky, or send us a grievous penalty."
8:33
But Allah was not going to send them a penalty whilst thou wast amongst them; nor was He going to send it whilst they
could ask for pardon.
8:34
But what plea have they that Allah should not punish them, when they keep out (men) from the sacred Mosque - and
they are not its guardians. No men can be its guardians except the righteous; but most of them do not understand.
8:35
Their prayer at the House (of Allah) is nothing but whistling and clapping of hands: (Its only answer can be), "Taste ye
the penalty because ye blasphemed."
8:36
The Unbelievers spend their wealth to hinder (man) from the path of Allah, and so will they continue to spend; but in
the end they will have (only) regrets and sighs; at length they will be overcome: and the Unbelievers will be gathered
together to Hell;-
8:37
In order that Allah may separate the impure from the pure, put the impure, one on another, heap them together, and
cast them into Hell. They will be the ones to have lost.
8:38
Say to the Unbelievers, if (now) they desist (from Unbelief), their past would be forgiven them; but if they persist, the
