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In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
- Closer and closer to mankind comes their Reckoning: Yet they heed not and they turn away.
- Never comes (aught) to them of a renewed Message from their Lord, but they listen to it as in jest,
- Their hearts toying as with trifles. The wrongdoers conceal their private counsels (saying), "Is this (one) more than a man like yourselves? Will ye go to witchcraft with your eyes open?"
- Say: "My Lord knoweth (every) word (spoken) in the heavens and the earth: He is the One that heareth and knoweth (all things)."
- "Nay," they say, "(these are) medleys of dreams! -- nay, He forged it! -- nay, He is (but) a poet! Let him then bring us a Sign like the ones that were sent to (prophets) of old!"
- (As to those) before them, not one of the populations which We destroyed believed: Will these believe?
- Before thee, also, the apostles we sent were but men, to whom We granted inspiration: If ye realize this not, ask of those who possess the Message.
- Nor did We give them bodies that ate no food, nor were they exempt from death.
- In the end We fulfilled to them Our promise, and We saved them and those whom We pleased, but We destroyed those who transgressed beyond bounds.
- We have revealed for you (O men!) a book in which is a Message for you: Will ye not then understand?
- How many were the populations we utterly destroyed because of their iniquities, setting up in their places other peoples!
- Yet, when they felt Our Punishment (coming), behold they (tried to) flee from it.
- Flee not, but return to the good things of this life which were given you, and to your homes, in order that ye may be called to account.
- They said: "Ah! woe to us! We were indeed wrongdoers!"
- And that cry of theirs ceased not, till We made them as a field that is mown, as ashes silent and quenched.
- Not for (idle) sport did We create the heavens and the earth and all that is between!
- If it had been Our wish to take (just) a pastime, We should surely have taken it from the things nearest to Us, if We would do (such a thing)!
- Nay, We hurl the Truth against falsehood, and it knocks out its brain, and behold, falsehood doth perish! Ah! woe be to you for the (false) things ye ascribe (to Us).
- To Him belong all (creatures) in the heavens and on earth: Even those who are in His (very) Presence are not too proud to serve Him, nor are they (ever) weary (of His service):
- They celebrate His praises night and day, nor do they ever flag or intermit.
- Or have they taken (for worship) gods from the earth who can raise (the dead)?
- If there were, in the heavens and the earth, other gods besides Allah, there would have been confusion in both! But glory to Allah, the Lord of the Throne: (High is He) above what they attribute to Him!
- He cannot be questioned for His acts, but they will be questioned (for theirs).
- Or have they taken for worship (other) gods besides Him? Say, "Bring your convincing proof: This is the Message of those with me and the Message of those before me." But most of them know not the Truth, and so turn away.
- Not an apostle did We send before thee without this inspiration sent by Us to him: That there is no god but I; therefore worship and serve Me.
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