52 Say: O people! Fear ye God, and allow not your tongues to utter, in
their deceitfulness, that which displeaseth Him. Stand abashed before the
One Who, as ye well know, hath created you out of a drop of water.(5) Say:
We have created all that are in heaven and on earth in the nature made by
God. Whosoever turneth unto this blessed Countenance shall manifest the
potentialities of that inborn nature, and whosoever remaineth veiled
therefrom shall be deprived of this invisible and all-encompassing grace.
Verily, there is naught from which Our favour hath been withheld, inasmuch
as We have dealt equitably in the fashioning of each and all, and by a
word of Our mouth presented unto them the trust of Our love. They that
have accepted it are indeed safe and secure, and are numbered among those
who are immune from the terrors of this Day. Those, however, who have
rejected it have, in truth, disbelieved in God, the Help in Peril, the
Self-Subsisting. Thus do We distinguish between the people and pronounce
judgement upon them. We, of a certainty, have the power to discern.

53 Say: The Word of God can never be confounded with the words of His
creatures. It is, in truth, the King of words, even as He is Himself the
sovereign Lord of all, and His Cause transcendeth all that was and all
that shall be. Enter, O people, the City of Certitude wherein the throne
of your Lord, the All-Merciful, hath been established. Thus biddeth you
the Pen of the All-Glorious, as a token of His unfailing grace. Haply ye
may not make His Revelation a cause of dissension amongst you.

54 Among the infidels are those who have repudiated His Self and risen up
against His Cause, and who claim that these divine verses are contrived.
Such also were the objections of the deniers of old, who now implore
deliverance from the Fire. Say: Woe betide you for the idle words that
proceed from your mouths! If these verses be indeed contrived, then by
what proof have ye believed in God? Produce it, if ye be men of