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very thing which they had been from a painful punishment. But
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wont to deride. We have also he who does not respond to
destroyed other towns that once God’s calls can never elude [Him]
[flourished] around you—We on earth, nor can he have any
had given them various signs so protector against Him. Such people
that they might return [to the have clearly gone far astray.’
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right path]— so why did their 33 Have they not seen that God,
gods not help them, those they who created the heavens and the
set up as gods besides God to earth and was not wearied by
bring them nearer to Him? No their creation, has the power to
indeed! They failed them utterly: bring the dead back to life? Yes,
it was all a lie, a fabrication of indeed, He has power over all
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their own making. things. On the Day when those
29 Remember how We sent to who deny the truth will be
you a band of jinn who wished to brought before the Fire, they
hear the Quran and as they shall be asked, ‘Is this not the
listened to its recitation, they truth?’ They will reply, ‘Yes, by
said to one another, ‘Be silent our Lord.’ He will say, ‘Then
and listen,’ and, then when it taste the punishment, because of
was finished, they went back to your denial of the truth.’
their people, to give them 35 Have patience, then, as had
warning. 30 They said, ‘O our the steadfast Messengers before
people, we have heard a Book, you; and be in no haste about
which has been sent down after them. On the Day when they see
Moses, fulfilling the predictions what they are threatened with, it
existing in previous scriptures; it will appear to them as though
guides to the truth, and to the they had not tarried longer than
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right path. Our people, respond an hour of a day. [Your
to the one who calls you to God. responsibility is] to deliver the
Believe in him! God will forgive message: and none but the
you your sins and protect you disobedient shall be destroyed.