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Alif, Lam, Mim, Ra (These are the names of letters of the Arabic alphabet, and only Allah knows their meaning here). Those are the ayat (Verses, signs) of the Book and an Evident Qur'an.
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(Probably) the ones who have disbelieved would often rather like that if they were Muslims.
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Leave them out to eat and enjoy (life), and let (false) aspiration divert them; then eventually they will know.
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And in no way did We cause any town to perish except that it had a known (prescribed) Book.
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In no way can any nation outstrip its term, and in no way will they (be able) to postpone it.
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And they said, "O you upon whom the Remembrance is being sent down, surely you are indeed a madman.
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Would you ever come up with the Angels to us, in case you are of the sincere?"
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In no way do We send down the Angels except with the Truth; and lo, in no way would they (The disbelievers) be respited.
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Surely We, Ever We, have been sending down the Remembrance, and surely We are indeed Preservers of it.
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And indeed We sent (Messengers) even before you among the sects of the earliest (people).
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And in no way did a Messenger come up to them except that they used to mock at him.
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Thus We insert it (Disbelief) into the hearts of the criminals.
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They do not believe in it; (The Message) and the enactment (The reward for good and evil) (for) the earliest (people) has already passed away.
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And (even) if We opened upon them a gate of the heaven (and) so they linger on winding up through it,
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They would indeed say, "Surely it is only that our be holdings (i.e., eyesights) are stupefied; no indeed, we are a people bewitched!"
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And indeed We have already made in the heaven constellations, and We have adorned it to the onlookers.
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And We have preserved it from every outcast Shaytan (The all-vicious, i.e., the Devil).
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Excepting him who (gains) hearing by stealth, (and) so an evidently flaming (meteor) follows him up.
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And the earth-We have extended it and cast on it anchorages, (i.e., mountains) and We have caused to grow therein of everything (evenly) weighed.
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And We have made for you (means of) subsistence therein and for the ones you do not even provide for (Literally: for whom you are not providers).
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And decidedly there is not a thing excepting that its treasuries are in Our Providence, and in no way do We send it down except in a known estimate.
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And We send the winds impregnating, (and) so We send down from the heaven water, then We give it to you to drink, and in no way can you even be its treasurers.
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And surely We, Ever We, indeed give life and make to die, and We are the inheritors.
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And indeed We already know the ones of you who can go forward, and indeed We already know the ones who can postpone.
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And surely your Lord, Ever He, will muster them; surely He is Ever-Wise, Ever-Knowing.
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And indeed We already created man of dry clay of mud modeled.
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And the jinn race We created earlier of the fire (The Arabic word samum is sometimes understood to be pestilential wind) of a pestilential (fire).
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And as your Lord said to the Angels, "Surely I am creating a mortal of dry clay of mud modeled.
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So, when I have molded him and breathed into him of My Spirit, fall down to him prostrating!"
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So the Angels prostrated themselves, all of them together.
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