(18:53) And the criminals will see the Fire and will be certain that they are to fall therein. And they will not find from it a way elsewhere. (18:54) And We have certainly diversified in this Qur`an for the people from every [kind of] example; but man has ever been, most of anything, [prone to] dispute. (18:55) And nothing has prevented the people from believing when guidance came to them and from asking forgiveness of their Lord except that there [must] befall them the [accustomed] precedent of the former peoples or that the punishment should come [directly] before them. (18:56) And We send not the messengers except as bringers of good tidings and warners. And those who disbelieve dispute by [using] falsehood to [attempt to] invalidate thereby the truth and have taken My verses, and that of which they are warned, in ridicule. (18:57) And who is more unjust than one who is reminded of the verses of his Lord but turns away from them and forgets what his hands have put forth? Indeed, We have placed over their hearts coverings, lest they understand it, and in their ears deafness. And if you invite them to guidance - they will never be guided, then - ever. (18:58) And your Lord is the Forgiving, full of mercy. If He were to impose blame upon them for what they earned, He would have hastened for them the punishment. Rather, for them is an appointment from which they will never find an escape. (18:59) And those cities - We destroyed them when they wronged, and We made for their destruction an appointed time.
