Or do they have associate-gods (who have guaranteed safety for them? Then, let them bring their associate-gods, if they are true,

on the Day when the Shin will be exposed, l and they will be called upon to prostrate themselves, but they will not be able to.

With their eyes downcast, they will be enveloped by ignominy. And they used to be called upon to prostrate when they were healthy (but they did not.)

So, leave Me alone with those who reject this discourse. We will draw them on little by little (towards Hell) from a way they do not know.

And I give them respite. Indeed, My plan is firm.

Is it that you ask them for a fee, due to which they are burdened with debt?

Or do they have the (knowledge of the) Unseen, and they write it down?

So, remain patient with your Lord's judgment, and be not like the Man of the Fish, 2 he cried out while he was in anguish.

Had not a favour from His Lord come to his help, he would have been cast in the wilderness in a reproachable state.3

Then his Lord chose him, and made him one of the righteous.