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Nigh unto men has drawn their reckoning, while they in heedlessness are yet turning away;
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no Remembrance from their Lord comes to them lately renewed, but they listen to it yet playing,
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diverted their hearts. The evildoers whisper one to another, 'Is this aught but a mortal like to yourselves? What, will you take to sorcery with your eyes open?'
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He says: 'My Lord knows what is said in the heavens and the earth, and He is the All-hearing, the All-knowing.'
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Nay, but they say: 'A hotchpotch of nightmares! Nay, he has forged it; nay, he is a poet! Now therefore let him bring us a sign, even as the ancient ones were sent as Messengers.'
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Not one city that We destroyed before them believed; what then, will they not believe?
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And We sent none before thee, but men to whom We made revelation -- question the People of the Remembrance, if you do not know --
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nor did We fashion them as bodies that ate not food, neither were they immortal;
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then We made true the promise We gave them and We delivered them, and whomsoever We would; and We destroyed the prodigal.
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Now We have sent down to you a Book wherein is your Remembrance; will you not understand?
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How many a city that was evildoing We have shattered, and set up after it another people!
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Then, when they perceived Our might, behold, they ran headlong out of it.
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'Run not! Return you unto the luxury that you exulted in, and your dwelling-places; haply you shall be questioned.'
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They said, 'Alas for us! We have been evildoers.'
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So they ceased not to cry, until We made them stubble, silent and still.
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We created not the heaven and the earth, and whatsoever between them is, as playing;
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had We desired to take to Us a diversion We would have taken it to Us from Ourselves, had We done aught.
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Nay, but We hurl the truth against falsehood and it prevails over it, and behold, falsehood vanishes away. Then woe to you for that you describe!
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To Him belongs whosoever is in the heavens and the earth; and those who are with Him wax not too proud to do Him service neither grow weary,
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glorifying Him by night and in the daytime and never failing.
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Or have they taken gods out of the earth who raise the dead?
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Why, were there gods in earth and heaven other than God, they would surely go to ruin; so glory be to God, the Lord of the Throne, above that they describe!
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He shall not be questioned as to what He does, but they shall he questioned.
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Or have they taken gods apart from Him? Say: 'Bring your proof! This is the Remembrance of him who is with me, and the Remembrance of those before me. Nay, but the most part of them know not the truth, so therefore they are turning away.
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And We sent never a Messenger before thee except that We revealed to him, saying, 'There is no god but I; so serve Me.'
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They say:' 'The All-merciful has taken to Him a son.' Glory be to Him! Nay, but they are honoured servants
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that outstrip Him not in speech, and perform as He commands.
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He knows what is before them and behind them, and they intercede not save for him with whom He is well-pleased, and they tremble in awe of Him.
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If any of them says, 'I am a god apart from Him', such a one We recompense with Gehenna; even so We recompense the evildoers.
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Have not the unbelievers then beheld that the heavens and the earth were a mass all sewn up, and then We unstitched them and of water fashioned every living thing? Will they not believe?
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