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‘Go together to the people who 43 Have you seen him who has
have denied Our signs.’ We taken his own desire to be his
utterly destroyed them! 37 We god? Can you be a guardian over
drowned the people of Noah him? 44 Do you think most of
also when they rejected their them can hear or understand?
messengers and We made them They are like cattle. Indeed, they
an example to all mankind. We are even more astray.
have prepared a painful 45 Have you not seen how your
punishment for the wrongdoers, Lord lengthens the shadows?
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to ‘Ad, and Thamud, and the Had He pleased, He could have
people of al-Rass, and as We did made them constant; then We
for the many a generation placed the sun as an indicator for
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between them. To each of them them, then We withdrew it to
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We gave warnings and each of Us, a gradual withdrawal. It is
them We destroyed completely. He who made the night a mantle
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Indeed they must have come for you, and sleep for repose;
upon the town on which an evil and made the day a time for
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rain had poured down. Did they rising. It is He who sends the
not see it? Yet they have no faith winds as heralds of His mercy
in the Resurrection. and We send down pure water
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Whenever they see you they from the sky, 49 so that We
only make a mockery of you— may bring life to a dead land;
‘Is this the one God has sent as and slake the thirst of Our
His Messenger? 42 Indeed, he
would well-nigh have led us a There are many lessons in this
astray from our deities, had we system of the earth. As the light of day
not been [so] steadfastly attached necessarily follows the darkness of
night, so also is it necessary that
to them!’ When they behold the
untruth be followed by Truth. While
punishment, they shall realize waking up in the morning after
who strayed furthest from the sleeping at night symbolizes
right path. resurrection in the life after death.