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‘The messengers of our Lord did mercy, and when they have
indeed bring the truth. Have we gathered up the heavy clouds,
then any intercessors who would We drive them on to a dead land
intercede for us? Or, could we be where We cause rain to fall,
sent back so that we might act bringing out all kinds of fruit,
differently from the way we used just as We will raise the dead to
to?’ They have indeed ruined life. Perhaps you will take heed.
their souls and what they 58 Vegetation comes out of good
invented has forsaken them. land in abundance by the will of
54 Your Lord is God, who its Lord, but out of bad land only
created the heavens and the earth scantily. Thus We explain Our
in six Days [periods] and then signs in diverse ways for those
settled Himself firmly on the who give thanks.
throne. He throws the veil of 59 We sent Noah to his people.
night over the day, each seeking He said, ‘O my people, worship
the other in rapid succession. It God; you have no other god but
was He who created the sun, the He. I fear for you the punishment
moon and the stars, and made of a dreadful Day,’ 60 but the
them subservient to His will. His leading men of his people said,
is the creation, His the command. ‘Truly, we see that you are
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Blessed be God, Lord of the obviously lost in error!’ Said
universe! 55 Call on your Lord [Noah], ‘O my people! I am not
with humility and in secret—He in error. Indeed, I am a messenger
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does not love the transgressors: from the Lord of the Worlds, I
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do not spread corruption on am conveying my Lord’s
the earth after it has been set in messages to you and giving you
order—pray to Him with fear sincere advice. I know things
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and hope, God’s mercy is close from God that you do not. Do
to those who do good. you find it so strange that a
57 It is God who sends forth message should come from your
the winds as harbingers of His Lord through a man from among