إِنَّا

نَحۡنُ

نَزَّلۡنَا

ٱلذِّكۡرَ

وَإِنَّا

لَهُۥ

لَحَٰفِظُونَ

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It is certainly We Who have revealed the Reminder, and it is certainly We Who will preserve it.

Indeed, We sent messengers before you ˹O Prophet˺ among the groups of early peoples,

but no messenger ever came to them without being mocked.

This is how We allow disbelief ˹to steep˺ into the hearts of the wicked.

They would not believe in this ˹Quran˺ despite the ˹many˺ examples of those ˹destroyed˺ before.

And even if We opened for them a gate to heaven, through which they continued to ascend,

still they would say, “Our eyes have truly been dazzled! In fact, we must have been bewitched.”