then it is Our job to call them to account.

I swear by the dawn,

and by the Ten Nights,

and by the even and the odd,

and by the night when it moves away,

Is there (not) in that an oath (enough) for a man of sense?

Have you not seen how your Lord dealt with (the people) of ` Ad

of Iram, the men of tall pillars,

the like of whom were never created in the lands,

and (how He dealt) with (the people of) Thamud who had carved out the rocks in the Valley (of Qura),