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will lead a straitened existence the day, so that you may find
and on the Day of Judgement We comfort.
shall raise him up blind 125 and 131 Do not regard with envy
he will ask, ‘Lord, why have You the worldly benefits We have
raised me up blind, while I given some of them, for with
possessed sight before?’ 126 God these We seek only to test them.
will say, ‘Just as Our signs came The provision of your Lord is
to you and you ignored them, so better and more lasting. 132 Bid
will you on this Day be ignored.’ your people say their prayers,
127 Thus We shall reward the and be constant in their
transgressor who denies the signs observance. We demand nothing
of his Lord. But the suffering of from you. It is We who provide
the life to come is more terrible for you, and the best end is that
and more lasting. of righteousness.
128 Do they not learn a lesson 133 They say, ‘Why does he not
from Our destruction of many bring us a sign from his Lord?’
generations before them in whose Have they not been given
dwelling-places they walk about? sufficient proof in previous
Surely in this are signs for men scriptures? 134 If We had
of understanding. 129 But for a destroyed them with a
pre-ordained Word from your punishment before this, they
Lord, and a term [of respite] would have surely said, ‘Our
already fixed, immediate Lord, why did you not send to us
punishment would inevitably a messenger so that we
have taken place. 130 So be patient might have followed Your
with anything they may say and commandment before we were
glorify your Lord with His praise humiliated and disgraced?’
before the rising of the sun and 135 Say, ‘Everyone is waiting; so
before its setting; and glorify wait if you will. You shall know
Him in the hours of the night who has followed the right path,
and at the beginning and end of and who has found guidance.’