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                                  be of any avail to his father. He sends down the rain, and He
                                  God’s promise is surely true. So knows what is in the wombs. No
                                  let not worldly life beguile you, soul knows what it will earn
                                  nor let the Deceiver deceive you tomorrow, and no soul knows in
                                  concerning God.  34 Truly, God what land it will die. Surely, God
                                  alone has knowledge of the Hour. is all knowing, all-aware.


                                        32.  PROSTRATION        (AL-SAJDAH)

                                      In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
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                                   Alif Lam Mim              heaven to earth. Then all will
                                                             again ascend to Him on a Day
                                  2 This Book has beyond all doubt whose length is a thousand years
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                                  been revealed by the Lord of the by the way you measure.  Such
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                                  Universe.  Do they say, ‘He has is the Knower of the unseen and
                                  invented it himself.’? No indeed! the visible, the Powerful, the
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                                  It is the truth from your Lord to Merciful,  who gave everything
                                  warn a people to whom, before its perfect form. He originated
                                  you, no warner came, so that the creation of man from clay,
                                  hopefully they may be rightly  8 then He made his progeny from
                                  guided.                    an extract of a humble fluid.
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                                     It was God who created the  Then He moulded him; He
                                  heavens and the earth and breathed His Spirit into him; He
                                  whatsoever is in between in six gave you hearing, sight, and
                                  Days, and then He established hearts. How seldom you are
                                  Himself on the throne. You have grateful!
                                  no patron nor any intercessor  10 They say, ‘When we are lost
                                  besides Him. So will you not pay in the earth, how can we then be
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                                  heed?  He directs all affairs from recreated?’ Indeed, they deny
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