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26 ‘Before this, when we have they been given charge of
were among our families, we them? 38 Have they a ladder up
were full of fear of God’s to heaven by means of which
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displeasure— God has been they can overhear? Then let their
gracious to us and has saved us listeners bring a clear proof.
from the torment of Hell’s intense 39 Does God have daughters
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heat— before this, we used to while you have sons?
pray to Him. Surely, He is the 40 Or do you ask them for a
Beneficent, the Merciful.’ reward, so that they are over-
29 Therefore continue to give burdened by debt? 41 Do they
warning, for by the grace of your possess knowledge of the unseen,
Lord, you are not a soothsayer or so that they can write it down?
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a madman. If they say, ‘He is 42 Do they want to hatch some
but a poet; we are waiting for plot? Those who deny the truth
some misfortune to befall him,’ will be the victims of the plot.
31 say [to them], ‘Wait then: I too 43 Or have they a god other than
am waiting along with you!’— God? Exalted be God over what
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is it their minds that prompt they ascribe as partners [to Him]!
them [to say] this, or are they 44 If they should see a part of
merely insolent people? 33 Or do the heavens falling down, they
they say, ‘He has invented it would say, ‘A mass of clouds,’
himself’? Indeed, they are not 45 so leave them alone till they
willing to believe. 34 Let them face the Day on which they will
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produce a scripture like it, if be struck dumb, the Day when
what they say is true. none of their scheming will be of
35 Were they created out of the least avail to them, and they
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nothing, or are they their own will receive no succour. Truly,
creators? 36 Did they create the for those who do wrong there is
heavens and the earth? No! They a punishment besides that,
have no faith. 37 Do they own though most of them do not
the treasures of your Lord, or know it.