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There has drawn nigh for the people (the Day of) their reckoning, yet they turn away in heedlessness.
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No new Reminder comes to them from their Lord but they listen to it in a playful mood,
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While their minds are inattentive. Those of them who have transgressed the limits, keep their counsels (against the Prophet of their time) secret (and say), 'He is only a human being like yourselves. Will you be seduced by his skillful eloquence while you see and know?'
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(On the contrary the Prophet's way is different.) He replied, 'My Lord knows what is conceived in the heaven and the earth. And He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.'
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Nay, they say, 'This (Qur'ân) is (no revelation), but a jumble of confused dreams, rather he (the Prophet) has forged it himself; he is a poet. (If it is not) so let him then bring us some sign (of destruction) just as the former (Prophets) were sent with.'
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(Whereas) before them no people of a township whom We destroyed had ever believed. Would they then believe (to escape destruction).
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(Prophet!) We sent none (as Messengers) before you but (they were) men to whom We made Our revelations. Therefore (O disbelievers!) ask the followers of the Reminder if you do not know (this).
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Nor did We give them such bodies as could go without food, neither were they people given unusually long lives (to enjoy).
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(We sent Our revelations to them) then We fulfilled the promise We made to them so that We delivered them, and those whom We pleased (beside them), and We destroyed the transgressors.
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(Mankind!) now We have revealed to you a (highly perfect) Book wherein there is a provision for your eminence. Why do you not then make use of your understanding?
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And We have utterly destroyed many a wrong-doing people of townships, and We raised up another people after them.
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No sooner did they perceive Our punishment than they began to flee from it.
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(Thereupon We called out to them,) 'Flee not but return to that (state of luxury) in which you were provided comforts and to your dwellings so that you might be called to account for (your conduct).'
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They said, 'Woe to us! we were indeed wrong-doers.'
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Then they continued repeating this cry of theirs, till We made them (like) mown down field (and extinguished their spark of life leaving them like) smouldering ashes.
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We did not create the heaven and the earth and all that is between the two in idle sport.
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If We had meant to make something vain and idle We would surely have made it so on Our part. (But) We were by no means to do (such a thing).
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Nay, We hurl the truth at falsehood so that it knocks out its brains (and defeats it); and behold, it (the falsehood) vanishes. And you deserve to be punished (with Gehenna) for what you ascribe (to God).
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And whosoever is in the heavens and the earth belongs to Him. And those who are close to Him do not disdain to worship Him, nor do they (ever) grow weary (to serve Him).
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They glorify (Him) night and day (and) they flag not.
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And yet some people have chosen (false) gods from the earth who (are supposed to) raise (the dead) to life.
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Had there been in them (the heaven and the earth) other gods beside Allâh, then surely both would have gone to ruin (because of chaos, disorder and confusion). Glorified then be Allâh the Lord of the Throne of power, far above what they attribute (to Him).
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He cannot be questioned for what He does, (because the cause for an objection does not exist,) whereas all (others) will be questioned (for what they do).
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Or have they chosen (other) gods beside Him? Say, 'Bring forth your clear proof (if there are other gods).' This (Unity of God) is the message of those who are with Me and the message of those (who have gone) before Me. The only thing is that most of them have no knowledge of the truth and that is why they have turned away (from it).
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And We sent no Messenger before you but We revealed to him, (saying), 'The truth is that there is no other, cannot be and will never be One worthy of worship but I, therefore worship Me (alone).'
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And they say, 'The Most Gracious (God) has taken to Himself a son.' Holy is He. Rather they (whom they so designate) are (only His) honoured servants.
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They do not precede Him in speech and they only carry out His biddings.
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He knows all that is before them (their future) and all that is behind them (their past). And they do not intercede except for the person for whom He is pleased to accord permission. And they are full of awe and reverence out of His Majesty.
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Should anyone of them say, 'I am a deity apart from Him;' him We will recompense with Gehenna for that is how We recompense the unjust.
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Do those who disbelieve not see that the heavens and the earth were (once) one mass all closed up, then We rent them apart. And it is from water that We created all life. Will they not believe (in the face of all this).
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