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you are indeed one of the apostles,
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[It is a scripture] sent down gradually from the All-mighty, the All-merciful
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that you may warn a people whose fathers were not warned, so they are oblivious.
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The word has certainly become due against most of them, so they will not have faith.
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Indeed We have put iron collars around their necks, which are up to the chins, so their heads are upturned.
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And We have put a barrier before them and a barrier behind them, then We have blind-folded them, so they do not see.
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It is the same to them whether you warn them or do not warn them, they will not have faith.
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You can only warn someone who follows the Reminder and fears the All-beneficent in secret; so give him the good news of forgiveness and a noble reward.
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Indeed it is We who revive the dead and write what they have sent ahead and their effects [which they left behind], and We have figured everything in a manifest Imam.
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Cite for them the example of the inhabitants of the town when the apostles came to it.
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When We sent to them two [apostles], they impugned both of them. Then We reinforced them with a third, and they said, ‘We have indeed been sent to you.’
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They said, ‘You are no other than human beings like us, and the All-beneficent has not sent down anything, and you are only lying.’
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They said, ‘Our Lord knows that we have indeed been sent to you,
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and our duty is only to communicate in clear terms.’
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They said, ‘Indeed we take you for a bad omen. If you do not desist we will stone you, and surely a painful punishment will visit you from us.’
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They said, ‘Your bad omens attend you. What! If you are admonished.... Indeed, you are an unrestrained lot.’
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There came a man hurrying from the city outskirts. He said, ‘O my people! Follow the apostles!
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Follow them who do not ask you any reward and they are rightly guided.
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Why should I not worship Him who has originated me, and to whom you shall be brought back?
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Shall I take gods besides Him? If the All-beneficent desired to cause me any distress, their intercession will not avail me in any way, nor will they rescue me.
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Indeed, then I would be in manifest error.
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Indeed I have faith in your Lord, so listen to me.’
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He was told, ‘Enter paradise!’ He said, ‘Alas! Had my people only known
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for what my Lord forgave me and made me one of the honoured ones!’
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After him We did not send down on his people a host from the sky, nor We would have sent down.
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It was but a single Cry, and, behold, they were stilled [like burnt ashes]!
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How regrettable of the servants! There did not come to them any apostle but that they used to deride him.
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