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40 On the Day when He gathers truth. These have not attained to
them all together, He will ask the one tenth of the power that We
angels, ‘Was it you that these had bestowed upon the earlier
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people worshipped?’ They will people. But they rejected My
say, ‘Glory be to You! You are messengers. Then how terrible,
our protector, not them. Indeed was My chastisement!
no! They worshipped the jinn; it 46 Say to them, ‘I exhort you to
was in them that most of them do one thing: and that is to stand
believed.’ 42 Today you possess up before God in pairs, or singly,
no power to benefit or harm one and then reflect. You will thus
another. We shall say to the realize that your companion is
wrongdoers, ‘Suffer the not afflicted with madness. He is
punishment of the Fire that you only a warner, warning you of an
persistently denied.’ impending severe chastisement.’
43 Whenever Our messages are 47 Say, ‘If I have asked you for
conveyed to them in all their any recompense, you can keep it.
clarity, they say, ‘This It is God alone who will reward
[Muhammad] is nothing but a me: He is the witness of all things.’
man who wants to turn you away 48 Say to them, ‘My Lord hurls
from what your forefathers forth the Truth [at falsehood]
worshipped.’ And they say, ‘This and He is the knower of hidden
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[Quran] is nothing but an things.’ Say to them, ‘The Truth
invented falsehood.’ And they has come and will endure.
who are bent on denying the Falsehood has no power to
truth speak thus of the truth originate any good, nor to
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when it comes to them, ‘This is reproduce it.’ Affirm, ‘If I am
clearly nothing but plain sorcery!’ in error, I shall carry the burden
44 We had not given them books thereof; and if I am rightly guided,
to study, nor have We sent them it is because of what my Lord has
a warner before you. 45 Their revealed to me. Truly, He is all-
predecessors also rejected the hearing and near at hand.’