17. Surah Al-Isra

Then ˹after your repentance˺ We would give you the upper hand over them and aid you with wealth and offspring, causing you to outnumber them.

If you act rightly, it is for your own good, but if you do wrong, it is to your own loss. “And when the second warning would come to pass, your enemies would ˹be left to˺ totally disgrace you and enter that place of worship as they entered it the first time, and utterly destroy whatever would fall into their hands.

Perhaps your Lord will have mercy on you ˹if you repent˺, but if you return ˹to sin˺, We will return ˹to punishment˺. And We have made Hell a ˹permanent˺ confinement for the disbelievers.”

Surely this Quran guides to what is most upright, and gives good news to the believers—who do good—that they will have a mighty reward.

And ˹it warns˺ those who do not believe in the Hereafter ˹that˺ We have prepared for them a painful punishment.

And humans ˹swiftly˺ pray for evil¹ as they pray for good. For humankind is ever hasty.

We made the day and night as two signs. So We made the sign of the night devoid of light, and We made the sign of the day ˹perfectly˺ bright, so that you may seek the bounty of your Lord and know the number of years and calculation ˹of time˺. And We have explained everything in detail.

We have bound every human’s destiny to their neck.¹ And on the Day of Judgment We will bring forth to each ˹person˺ a record which they will find laid open.

˹And it will be said,˺ “Read your record. You ˹alone˺ are sufficient this Day to take account of yourself.”