Say: "(Nay!) be ye stones or iron,
17:51
"Or created matter which, in your minds, is hardest (to be raised up),- (Yet shall ye be raised up)!" then will they say:
"Who will cause us to return." Say: "He who created you first!" Then will they wag their heads towards thee, and say,
"When will that be." Say, "May be it will be quite soon!
17:52
"It will be on a Day when He will call you, and ye will answer (His call) with (words of) His praise, and ye will think
that ye tarried but a little while!"
17:53
Say to My servants that they should (only) say those things that are best: for Satan doth sow dissensions among them:
For Satan is to man an avowed enemy.
17:54
It is your Lord that knoweth you best: If He please, He granteth you mercy, or if He please, punishment: We have not
sent thee to be a disposer of their affairs for them.
17:55
And it is your Lord that knoweth best all beings that are in the heavens and on earth: We did bestow on some
prophets more (and other) gifts than on others: and We gave to David (the gift of) the Psalms.
17:56
Say: "Call on those - besides Him - whom ye fancy: they have neither the power to remove your troubles from you nor
to change them."
17:57
Those whom they call upon do desire (for themselves) means of access to their Lord, - even those who are nearest:
they hope for His Mercy and fear His Wrath: for the Wrath of thy Lord is something to take heed of.
