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to their forefathers? 69 Or do themselves 77 until We open
they not recognize their before them a gate of harsh
Messenger, and so deny him? punishment and then they will
70 Do they say he is possessed? be dumbfounded.
Rather he has brought them the 78 It is He who gave you ears,
truth, but most of them are averse eyes and hearts, yet how seldom
a 79
to the truth. 71 If truth had you are grateful! He it is who
followed their whims and desires, has multiplied you on the earth
heavens and earth and all that and to Him you shall all be
lives in them would have been gathered: 80 He is the One who
brought to ruin. Rather We have gives life and causes death and
brought them their Reminder. He controls the alternation of
Yet they keep avoiding their night and day. Will you not then
Reminder. understand?
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Or are you asking them for
any reward? But the reward of a In this universe the human being
your Lord is the best, for He is is a special creation who has been
the Best of Providers, 73 and, given the exceptional powers of
most surely, you are calling them hearing, seeing and thinking. These
to a straight path. 74 But those capacities have been given to man for
a special purpose, namely, to
who do not believe in the
understand the reality of life. He should
Hereafter have indeed deviated use his ears to hear the voice of Truth.
from that path. With his eyes he should see the signs
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Even if We showed them of God that are spread all around him.
mercy and relieved them of their He should use his thinking powers for
afflictions, they would still an in-depth study of all these things.
This, in reality, is the way of
persist in their transgression,
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wandering blindly. We seized thankfulness of the ears, the eyes and
the heart. Those who do not give
them with the punishment, but evidence of such thankfulness in this
they did not surrender to their world risk losing their entitlement to
Lord, nor will they humble these gifts forever.