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merciful— He has created you the sea, so that you may eat
horses, mules and donkeys, so its fresh seafood and bring forth
that you may ride them, and also from it ornaments to wear. You
so that they may be put on show, see the ships cleaving through it.
and He creates other things All this, so that you may seek
beyond your knowledge. His bounty and feel grateful.
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The straight way leads to He has set up on the earth
God and there are ways which firm mountains, lest it shake
deviate from the right course. If under you, and rivers and tracks,
He so wished, He would guide so that you may find your way,
you all. 16 and He has set up other
10 It is He who sends down landmarks. By these and by the
water from the sky. From it you stars people set their course.
drink and with it trees grow on 17 Is He, then, who creates like
which you pasture your cattle. him who does not create? Will
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And with it He grows for you you not, then, take heed? If
corn, and the olive and the date- you tried to count God’s
palm and the grape, and all kinds blessings, you would never be
of fruits. Surely, in that is a sign able to number them. God is
for a people who reflect. ever forgiving and most merciful.
12 He has made the night and 19 God knows all that you conceal
the day and the sun and the moon and all that you reveal.
subservient to you; and all the 20 Those you call on besides
stars are subservient to His God cannot create anything. They
command. Surely in this there are are themselves created. 21 They
signs for men of understanding. are dead, not living; nor do they
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On the earth He has fashioned know when they will be raised to
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for you objects of various hues: life. Your God is the One God.
there is certainly a sign in that As for those who do not believe
for people who pay heed. in the Hereafter, their hearts
14 It is He who subjected to refuse to admit the truth and they