Mohammed Beiruti: Qura'an ch.21 Prophets
[16] Not for (idle) sport did We create the heavens and the earth and all that is between!
[17] If it had been Our wish to take (just) a pastime, We should surely have taken it from the things nearest to Us, if We would do (such a thing)!
[18] Nay, We hurl the Truth against falsehood, and it knocks out its brain, and behold, falsehood doth perish! Ah! woe be to you for the (false) things ye ascribe (to Us).
[19] To Him belong all (creatures) in the heavens and on earth: even those who are in His (very) Presence are not too proud to serve Him, Nor are they (ever) weary (of His service):
[20] They celebrate His praises night and day, nor do they ever flag or intermit.
[21] Or have they taken (for worship) gods from the earth who can raise (the dead)?
[22] If there were, in the heavens and the earth, other gods besides Allah, there would have been confusion in both! But glory to Allah, the Lord of the Throne: (High is He) above what they attribute to Him!