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that We then split them asunder? Soon I will show you My signs,
And that We have made every but do not ask Me to hasten
living thing out of water? Will them. 38 They ask, ‘When will
they still not believe? this promise be fulfilled, if what
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We set firm mountains upon you say be true?’ If only those
the earth lest it should sway who deny the truth knew the
under them, and We placed time when they would not be
therein passages for paths so that able to ward off the fire neither
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they might find their way. We from their faces nor from their
have made the heaven a well- backs. They will not be helped!
secured canopy; yet still they 40 Indeed, it will come upon them
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turn away from Our signs. It is suddenly and confound them;
He who created the night and the and they will not be able to ward
day, and the sun and the moon, it off, nor shall they be reprieved.
each gliding in its orbit. 41 Other messengers have been
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We have not granted mocked before you, but those
everlasting life to any human who scoffed were overwhelmed
being before you; then if you by the very thing they had
[Muhammad] should die, will mocked.
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they live forever? Every soul 42 Say, ‘Who will save you
shall taste death; We test you from the wrath of the Most
with both good and evil Gracious, by night and by day?’
[circumstances] as a trial. To Us Yet they turn away from the
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you shall return. remembrance of their Lord. Do
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When those who deny the they have other deities who can
truth see you, they laugh at you, defend them against Us? They
saying, ‘Is this the one who talks cannot even help themselves,
of your deities?’ Yet it is they neither can they be aided against
who deny all mention of the Us.
Gracious One. 44 Yet We bestowed the good
37 Man is a creature of haste. things [of life] upon their fathers