˹And We said to him,˺ “Take in your hand a bundle of grass, and strike ˹your wife˺ with it, and do not break your oath.”¹ We truly found him patient. What an excellent servant ˹he was˺! Indeed, he ˹constantly˺ turned ˹to Allah˺.

˹And We said to him,˺ “Take in your hand a bundle of grass, and strike ˹your wife˺ with it, and do not break your oath.”¹ We truly found him patient. What an excellent servant ˹he was˺! Indeed, he ˹constantly˺ turned ˹to Allah˺.

Also remember Ishmael, Elisha, and Ⱬul-Kifl.¹ All are among the best.

This is ˹all˺ a reminder. And the righteous will certainly have an honourable destination:

the Gardens of Eternity, whose gates will be open for them.

There they will recline, calling for abundant fruit and drink.

And with them will be maidens of modest gaze and equal age.

That is that. And the transgressors will certainly have the worst destination:

Hell, where they will burn. What an evil place to rest!

Let them then taste this: boiling water and ˹oozing˺ pus,

and other torments of the same sort!

˹Remember, O  Prophet˺ when your Lord said to the angels, “I am going to create a human being from clay.

So when I have fashioned him and had a spirit of My Own ˹creation˺ breathed into him, fall down in prostration to him.”

but not Iblîs,¹ who acted arrogantly,² becoming unfaithful.

Allah asked, “O Iblîs! What prevented you from prostrating to what I created with My Own Hands? Did you ˹just˺ become proud? Or have you always been arrogant?”

He replied, “I am better than he is: You created me from fire and him from clay.”