Or do they have partners? Then let them bring their partners, if they should be truthful.

The Day the shin will be uncovered and they are invited to prostration but they [i.e., the disbelievers] will not be able,

Their eyes humbled, humiliation will cover them. And they used to be invited to prostration while they were sound.

So leave Me, [O Muhammad], with [the matter of] whoever denies this statement [i.e., the Quran]. We will progressively lead them [to punishment] from where they do not know.

And I will give them time. Indeed, My plan is firm.

Or do you ask of them a payment, so they are by debt burdened down?

Or have they [knowledge of] the unseen, so they write [it] down?

Then be patient for the decision of your Lord, [O Muhammad], and be not like the companion of the fish [i.e., Jonah] when he called out while he was distressed.

If not that a favor [i.e., mercy] from his Lord overtook him, he would have been thrown onto the naked shore while he was censured.

And his Lord chose him and made him of the righteous.