Perhaps those who disbelieve will wish that they had been Muslims.  

رُبَمَا يَوَدُّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا لَوْ كَانُوا مُسْلِمِينَ  

Let them eat and enjoy themselves and be diverted by ˹false˺ hope, for they are going to know.  

ذَرْهُمْ يَأْكُلُوا وَيَتَمَتَّعُوا وَيُلْهِهِمُ الْأَمَلُ ۖ فَسَوْفَ يَعْلَمُونَ  

And We did not destroy any city but that for it was a known decree.  

وَمَا أَهْلَكْنَا مِنْ قَرْيَةٍ إِلَّا وَلَهَا كِتَابٌ مَعْلُومٌ  

No nation will precede its term, nor will they remain thereafter.  

مَا تَسْبِقُ مِنْ أُمَّةٍ أَجَلَهَا وَمَا يَسْتَأْخِرُونَ  

And they say, "O you upon whom the message has been sent down, indeed you are mad.  

وَقَالُوا يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِي نُزِّلَ عَلَيْهِ الذِّكْرُ إِنَّكَ لَمَجْنُونٌ  

Why do you not bring us the angels, if you should be among the truthful?"  

لَوْ مَا تَأْتِينَا بِالْمَلَائِكَةِ إِنْ كُنْتَ مِنَ الصَّادِقِينَ  

We do not send down the angels except with truth; and the disbelievers would not then be reprieved.  

مَا نُنَزِّلُ الْمَلَائِكَةَ إِلَّا بِالْحَقِّ وَمَا كَانُوا إِذًا مُنْظَرِينَ  

Indeed, it is We who sent down the Qur'an and indeed, We will be its guardian.  

إِنَّا نَحْنُ نَزَّلْنَا الذِّكْرَ وَإِنَّا لَهُ لَحَافِظُونَ  

And We had certainly sent ˹messengers˺ before you, ˹O Muhammad˺, among the sects of the former peoples.  

وَلَقَدْ أَرْسَلْنَا مِنْ قَبْلِكَ فِي شِيَعِ الْأَوَّلِينَ  

And no messenger would come to them except that they ridiculed him.  

وَمَا يَأْتِيهِمْ مِنْ رَسُولٍ إِلَّا كَانُوا بِهِ يَسْتَهْزِئُونَ  

Thus do We insert denial into the hearts of the criminals.  

كَذَٰلِكَ نَسْلُكُهُ فِي قُلُوبِ الْمُجْرِمِينَ  

They will not believe in it, while there has already occurred the precedent of the former peoples.  

لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِهِ ۖ وَقَدْ خَلَتْ سُنَّةُ الْأَوَّلِينَ  

And ˹even˺ if We opened to them a gate from the heaven and they continued therein to ascend,  

وَلَوْ فَتَحْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ بَابًا مِنَ السَّمَاءِ فَظَلُّوا فِيهِ يَعْرُجُونَ  

They would say, "Our eyes have only been dazzled. Rather, we are a people affected by magic."  

لَقَالُوا إِنَّمَا سُكِّرَتْ أَبْصَارُنَا بَلْ نَحْنُ قَوْمٌ مَسْحُورُونَ