There had surely been in the news of the messengers which We related it upon you and what befell the deniers an exhortation for the people of sound intellects. This Qur'an was not a speech belied fabricated, but rather We sent it down confirming for what preceded it of the heavenly books, and a clarification for all what the servants are in need of it of making lawful and making forbidden, and beloved and disliked and other than that, and a guidance from the misguidance, and a mercy for the people of faith their hearts being guided by it, so they act by what is in it of the commands and the prohibitions.