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10 We bestowed upon David a worm from the earth,
great favour. We said, ‘O which was eating away at his
mountains and birds! Join with cane. When he fell down, the
him in celebrating Our praise.’ jinn plainly realized that if
We softened iron for him, saying, they had known what was
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‘Make full-length coats of unseen, they would not have
mail, measuring the links well. had to continue with such
And do righteous deeds. Surely, humiliating labour.
I see all that you do.’ 15 For the people of Sheba
12 We subjected the wind to there was a sign in their
Solomon; its morning course was homeland: two gardens, one on
a month and its evening course a the right hand and the other on
month; and We caused a fount of the left. We said to them: ‘Eat
molten copper to flow for him. what your Lord has provided for
And of the jinn there were some you, and be grateful. You have a
who worked under him, by the good land and a Lord most
command of his Lord. If any one forgiving.’ 16 Yet they turned
of them turned away from Our away [from the truth]. So We let
command, We would make him loose on them a flood from the
taste the punishment of the dam and replaced their two
burning fire. 13 They made for gardens by two others bearing
him whatever he desired: palaces bitter fruits, tamarisks, and a few
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and statues, basins like lote trees. We requited them in
reservoirs, and large cooking that way because of their
vessels fixed in their places. We ingratitude. We requite no one in
said, ‘Give thanks, house of that way but the ungrateful.
David, for few of My servants 18 We had placed between them
are truly grateful.’ and the towns that We had
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When We decreed Solomon’s blessed, other towns situated close
death, nothing indicated his to each other, and We fixed the
death to them except stages [of journey] between them,