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63 God said, ‘Go away! Hell you are back on land, or His
will be your reward and the sending a deadly sand storm
reward of any of them who follow upon you? Then you will find
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you—an ample recompense. none to protect you. Or do you
64 Go ahead and entice feel secure against His sending
whomsoever of them you can, you back to sea once again, and
with your voice, and mount raising a fierce gale against you
assaults against them with your and causing you to drown in
cavalry and infantry and be their requital for your ingratitude? You
partner in wealth and offspring, will find no helper against Us
and make promises to them— there.
Satan promises nothing but 70 We have honoured the
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delusion— but over My true children of Adam, and have borne
servants you shall have no power. them on the land and the sea,
Your Lord will be their all- given them for sustenance things
sufficient guardian.’ which are good and pure; and
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Your Lord is He who causes exalted them above many of Our
the ships to move onward for creatures.
you across the sea, so that you 71 The Day will surely come
may go in quest of His bounty: when We shall summon every
He is most merciful towards people with their leader. Then
you. 67 When danger threatens those who are given their records
you at sea, you call upon Him, in their right hands will read
and forget all others you are their records [eagerly] and shall
wont to invoke. But when He not in the least be wronged:
brings you safe to land, you turn 72 but whoever has been blind in
away from Him. Man is ever this life will be blind in the life
ungrateful. to come, and still farther astray
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Do you then feel secure from the path [of truth].
against His causing you to be 73 They indeed sought to entice
swallowed up by the earth when you away from what We revealed