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NEAR HAS COME the reckoning for men, but they turn away in remissness.
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Never does a new reminder come to them from their Lord but they listen to it with dalliance.
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Their minds are lost in frivolous pastimes; and the evil-doers discuss secretly: "Is he not but only a man like you? Then why are you taken in by magic seeingly?"
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He said: "My Lord knows whatever is spoken in the heavens and the earth. He hears all and knows everything."
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Yet they say: "These are only confused dreams," or rather: "He has invented them;" or: "He is only a poet. Let him therefore bring a miracle to us as the earlier (apostles) were sent with."
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Not one habitation that We destroyed before them had believed. So how can they believe?
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Never did We send a message before you but through a man, whom We inspired. If you do not know, then ask the keepers of the oracles of God.
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We did not make their bodies immune to hunger, nor were they immortal.
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Then We made Our promise good to them and delivered whomsoever We pleased, and destroyed the transgressors.
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We have sent down to you a Book which has a reminder for you. Do you not understand?
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How many habitations that were sinful have We demolished utterly, and raised other people after them.
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Whensoever they sensed Our punishment they fled from them.
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Do not flee; go back to your halls of pleasure and your habitations, so that you may be interrogated.
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Woe, alas, they said, "we were really sinful."
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And this remained their lament till We mowed them down and made them extinct.
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We have not created the heavens and the earth, and all that lies between them, out of fun.
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If We had pleased to make a plaything We could have made it Ourself, if We had cared to do so.
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In fact We strike the truth against the false, which shatters it, and it disappears. Woe to you for what you attribute (to Him)!
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Whosoever is in the heavens and the earth belongs to Him; and those who are near Him do not disdain to worship Him or weary (of His service),
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Nor cease to endeavour praising Him night and day.
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Or have they taken gods from the earth who can raise the dead?
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Had there been gods apart from God, both (the heavens and the earth) would have been despoiled. Much too glorious is God, the Lord of the mighty throne, for things they assert!
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He cannot be questioned about what He does, but they will be questioned.
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Have they taken gods besides God? Say: "Then bring your proof. Here is the Book of those who are with me, and the Book of those who have gone before me." But most men do not know the truth and turn away.
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We have not sent an apostle before you without instructing him that there is no god but I, so worship Me.
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And yet they say: "Ar-Rahman has begotten a son." Too exalted is He! In fact, those (they call His sons) were His honoured votaries.
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They did not precede Him in their speech, and acted on His command.
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He knows what was there before them and what came after them; and they did not intercede for any one but whom He willed, and they were filled with awe of Him.
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If any one of them said: "I am God besides Him," We should award him Hell; for this is how We requite the evil-doers.
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Do not these unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were an integrated mass, then We split them and made every living thing from water? Will they not believe even then?
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