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you news about what they 77 surely in this there is a sign for
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disputed, and we have come to those who believe.
you with the truth, and surely we 78 The people of the Wood
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are truthful, so leave with your were also surely wrongdoers.
family some time in the latter 79 So We took vengeance on
part of the night, and walk behind them. Both are still there on the
them. Let none of you look back. highway, plain for all to see.
Go where you are commanded.’ 80 The people of al-Hijr also
66 We communicated to him Our rejected Our messengers: 81 We
decree that the guilty ones would gave them Our signs, but they
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be destroyed by the morning. turned away from them. They
67 The people of the town came carved out dwellings in the
along, revelling, 68 and he told mountains, and lived in
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them, ‘These are my guests, so security— the blast overtook
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do not disgrace me. Fear God them early one morning. 84 All
and do not shame me.’ 70 They that they had acquired was of no
said, ‘Did we not forbid you to avail to them.
extend hospitality to strangers?’ 85 We have created the heavens
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He said, ‘Here are my and the earth and all that is
daughters, if you must act in between the two in accordance
this way.’ with the requirements of truth
72 By your life, they wandered and wisdom. The Hour is surely
on in their wild intoxication coming. So overlook [their
73 and thereupon the blast [of faults] with gracious forgiveness.
Our punishment] overtook them 86 Surely your Lord is the All
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at sunrise. We turned the town Knowing Creator!
upside down and rained upon 87 We have given you the seven
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them stones of clay. There are oft-recited verses and the great
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certainly signs in that for those Quran. Do not strain your eyes
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who can learn a lesson— it is towards the worldly benefits We
still there on the highway— have bestowed on some of them,