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Alif, Lam, Ra. These are the signs of the Book and a manifest Quran.
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Much will the faithless wish that they had been Muslims.
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Leave them to eat and enjoy and to be diverted by longings. Soon they will know.
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We did not destroy any town but that it had a known term.
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No nation can advance its time nor can it defer it.
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They said, ‘O you, to whom the Reminder has been sent down, you are indeed crazy.
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Why do you not bring us the angels should you be truthful?!’
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We do not send down the angels except with due reason, and then they will not be granted any respite.
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Indeed We have sent down the Reminder, and indeed We will preserve it.
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Certainly We sent [apostles] before you to former communities,
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and there did not come to them any apostle but that they used to deride him.
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That is how We let it pass through the hearts of the guilty:
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they do not believe in it, and the precedent of the ancients has already passed.
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Were We to open for them a gate of the sky, so that they could go on ascending through it,
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they would surely say, ‘Indeed a spell has been cast on our eyes; indeed, we are a bewitched lot.’
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Certainly We have appointed houses in the sky and adorned them for the onlookers,
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and We have guarded them from every outcast Satan,
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except someone who may eavesdrop, whereat there pursues him a manifest flame.
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And We spread out the earth, and cast in it firm mountains, and We grew in it every kind of balanced thing,
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and made in it [various] means of livelihood for you and for those whom you do not provide for.
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There is not a thing but that its sources are with Us, and We do not send it down except in a known measure.
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And We send the fertilizing winds and send down water from the sky providing it for you to drink and you are not maintainers of its resources.
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Indeed it is We who give life and bring death and We are the inheritors.
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Certainly We know the predecessors among you and certainly We know the successors,
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and indeed it is your Lord who will resurrect them. Indeed, He is all-wise, all-knowing.
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Certainly We created man out of a dry clay [drawn] from an aging mud,
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and We created the jinn earlier, out of a piercing fire.
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When your Lord said to the angels, ‘Indeed I am going to create a human out of a dry clay [drawn] from an aging mud.
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So when I have proportioned him and breathed into him of My spirit, then fall down in prostration before him.’
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Thereat the angels prostrated, all of them together,
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