Surah 26

⁶⁹ Recite unto them the story of Abraham:

⁷⁰ When he said unto his father and his folk: What worship ye?

⁷¹ They said: We worship idols, and are ever devoted unto them.

⁷² He said: Do they hear you when ye cry?

⁷³ Or do they benefit or harm you?

⁷⁴ They said: Nay, but we found our fathers acting on this wise.

⁷⁵ He said: See now that which ye worship,

⁷⁶ Ye and your forefathers!

⁷⁷ Lo! they are (all) an enemy unto me, save the Lord of the Worlds,

⁷⁸ Who created me, and He doth guide me,

⁷⁹ And Who feedeth me and watereth me.

⁸⁰ And when I sicken, then He healeth me,

⁸¹ And Who causeth me to die, then giveth me life (again),

⁸² And Who, I ardently hope, will forgive me my sin on the Day of Judgment.

⁸³ My Lord! Vouchsafe me wisdom and unite me to the righteous.

⁸⁴ And give unto me a good report in later generations.

⁸⁵ And place me among the inheritors of the Garden of Delight,

⁸⁶ And forgive my father. Lo! he is of those who err.

⁸⁷ And abase me not on the day when they are raised,

⁸⁸ The day when wealth and sons avail not (any man)

⁸⁹ Save him who bringeth unto Allah a whole heart.

⁹⁰ And the Garden will be brought nigh for those who ward off (evil).

⁹¹ And hell will appear plainly to the erring.

⁹² And it will be said unto them: Where is (all) that ye used to worship

⁹³ Instead of Allah? Can they help you or help themselves?

⁹⁴ Then will they be hurled therein, they and the seducers

⁹⁵ And the hosts of Iblis, together.

⁹⁶ And they will say, when they are quarrelling therein:

⁹⁷ By Allah, of a truth we were in error manifest

⁹⁸ When we made you equal with the Lord of the Worlds.

⁹⁹ It was but the guilty who misled us.

¹⁰⁰ Now we have no intercessors

¹⁰¹ Nor any loving friend.

¹⁰² Oh, that we had another turn (on earth), that we might be of the believers!

¹⁰³ Lo! herein is indeed a portent, yet most of them are not believers!

¹⁰⁴ And lo, thy Lord! He is indeed the Mighty, the Merciful.