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remembrance of God and the outstretched? Each knows his own
observance of prayer and the mode of prayer and glorification:
payment of the zakat—fearing a God has full knowledge of all
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Day when hearts and eyes will that they do. To God belongs
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be convulsed, so that God may the kingdom of the heavens and
reward them according to the the earth, and to God shall all
best of their deeds and give them things return.
more out of His bounty. God 43 Do you not see how God
provides for whoever He wills drives the clouds, then joins them
without measure. together, then piles them into
39 As for those who deny the layers and then you see the rain
truth, their works are like a pour from their midst? He
mirage in a desert. The thirsty sends down from the skies
traveller thinks it to be water, but mountainous masses [of clouds]
when he comes near, he finds it charged with hail, and He makes
to be nothing. He finds God it fall on whom He will, and
there, who pays him his account turns it away from whom He
in full. God is swift in His pleases. The flash of His
reckoning. 40 Or like darkness lightning may well-nigh take
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on a deep ocean covered by away the sight. God alternates
waves billowing over waves and the night and the day—truly, in
overcast with clouds: darkness this there is a lesson for men of
upon darkness. If he stretches insight.
out his hand, he can scarcely see 45 God created every creature
it. Indeed, the man from whom from water. Some crawl upon
God withholds His light shall their bellies, others walk on two
find no light at all. legs, and others walk on four.
41 [Prophet], do you not see God creates what He pleases. He
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that all those who are in the has power over all things. We
heavens and on earth praise God, have sent down revelations
as do the birds with wings clearly showing the truth. God