(Repeat for verse 17) Have you seen more wondrous than the transgression of this man (and he is Abu Jahl) who forbids a servant of Ours when he prayed for his Lord (and he is Muhammad peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)? Have you seen if the one forbidden from the prayer was upon the guidance then how does he forbid him? Or if he used to be one commanding others with the fear of Allah does he forbid him from that? Have you seen if this forbidder belied with what he is called to, and turned away from it, has he then not known that Allah sees all what he performs? The matter is not as Abu Jahl claims, if he surely did not return from his opposition and his harm We will surely take by the front of his head a violent taking, and he be thrown in the Fire, his forehead a forehead lying in its statement, erring in its actions. So let this tyrant present the people of his gathering who he seeks victory by them, shortly We will call the angels of punishment. The matter is not upon what Abu Jahl thinks, indeed he will never reach you-O Messenger- with evil, so do not obey him in what he called you to of the leaving of the prayer, and prostrate for your Lord and draw near from Him by the seeking of love to Him through His obedience.