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CONSIDER the heavens and that which comes in the night!
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And what could make thee conceive what it is that comes in the night?
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It is the star that pierces through (life's) darkness:
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(for) no human being has ever been left unguarded.
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LET MAN, then, observe out of what he has been created:
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he has been created out of a seminal fluid
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issuing from between the loins (of man) and the pelvic arch (of woman).
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Now, verily, He (who thus creates man in the first instance) is well able to bring him back (to life)
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on the Day when all I secrets will be laid bare,
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and (man) will have neither strength nor helper!
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Consider the heavens, ever-revolving,
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and the earth, bursting forth with plants!
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BEHOLD, this (divine writ) is indeed a word that between truth and falsehood,
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Behold, they (who refuse to accept it) devise many a false argument (to disprove its truth);
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but I shall bring all their scheming to nought.
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Let, then, the deniers of the truth have their will: let them have their will for a little while.