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5 profound in wisdom, but all and My warning. 17 We have
warnings have been of no avail: made it easy to learn lessons
6 so ignore them. On the Day from the Quran. Is there anyone
when the Crier will call out who would receive admonition?
about a horrible event, 7 with 18 The people of ‘Ad too
downcast eyes they shall come rejected the truth. How terrible
out of their graves, as if they was My punishment and My
were locusts milling about warning. 19 We sent a raging
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hastening towards the Crier. wind against them on a day of
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Those who deny the truth will continuous calamity. It swept
cry, ‘This is such a hard day!’ people away as if they were
9 The people of Noah denied trunks of uprooted palm trees.
[the truth] before them. They 21 How [dreadful] was My
belied Our messenger saying, punishment and My warning!
‘He is mad!’ He was rebuffed, 22 We have made it easy to learn
10 so he cried out to his Lord, lessons from the Quran: is there
saying, ‘I am overcome, so help anyone who would receive
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me!’ So We opened the gates admonition?
of the sky with water pouring 23 The tribe of Thamud also
down in torrents, 12 and We rejected Our warnings: 24 they
caused the earth to burst with said, ‘Are we to follow a man
gushing springs: so that the from amongst ourselves? We
waters met for a purpose which would surely then fall into error
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had been decreed. 13 We bore and madness. Has the [Divine]
him on an [ark] which, made of message been revealed to him
planks and nails, 14 floated on alone of all of us? No, he is a
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under Our eyes: a vindication of boastful liar.’ [We said to him]
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him who had been rejected. We ‘Tomorrow they shall know who
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have left this as a sign: but will is the boastful liar, for We are
anyone take heed? 16 How [going to] send the she-camel as
terrible then was My punishment a trial for them, so watch them