Hizb 27 opens with the whole of Al-Hijr, retelling Iblis's refusal to bow before Adam once more and describing seven gates of Hell each assigned a portion of the misguided, set against a description of Paradise for the righteous. It carries Abraham's angelic visitors again, this time emphasizing their onward journey to warn Lot, and the destruction of his people alongside the people of Al-Hijr, identified with Thamud, who carved their homes directly into the mountains.
The sura closes with instruction to the Prophet to proclaim his message openly and take no notice of those who mock it, and with one of the Quran's most cited verses on its own transmission, the statement that the Reminder has been sent down and will itself be preserved, a verse frequently invoked in later doctrine on the text's protection from corruption over time.
The hizb then opens An-Nahl, the Bee, cataloguing signs in creation meant to prompt gratitude rather than pride: livestock providing warmth, food and transport, rain reviving dead land, ships and mountains holding the earth steady, and bees producing a substance with healing properties, all offered as evidence against the disbelievers' habit of attributing partners to the one source actually responsible for any of it.