The Thunder
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[13:13]
and the thunder extols His limitless glory and praises Him, and [so do] the angels, in awe of Him; and He [it is who] lets loose the thunderbolts and strikes with them whom He wills.
And yet, they stubbornly argue about God, not withstanding [all evidence] that He alone has the power to contrive whatever His unfathomable wisdom wills!

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* v.13 : I.e., about His transcendental existence or the quality of His Being.
* According to Rāghib, the expression shadīd al-mihāl (which occurs in the Qur’ān only in this one place) signifies “powerful in contriving, in a manner hidden from man, that wherein wisdom lies”; hence my rendering.