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plant? 64 Is it you who cause worlds. 81 How can you regard
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them to grow or do We? If We this discourse with disdain? Do
so pleased, We could turn your you make its denial your means
harvest into chaff. Then you of livelihood?
would start lamenting, 66 We 83 Why, then, when the soul of
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are ruined, nay, we are deprived the dying man reaches the throat,
[altogether]. 68 Have you 84 and you are [at that moment]
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considered the water that you looking on [helplessly] and
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drink? Is it you who cause it to We are nearer to him than you,
descend from the clouds, or do although you cannot see Us
We? 70 If We so pleased, We 86 why, then, if you are not subject
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certainly could make it salty. to Our command, do you not
Why, then, are you not grateful? cause the soul to return to him if
71 Have you thought about the you are truthful in your claim?
fire that you kindle. 72 Did you 88 But if he [the dying person] is
produce the tree that serves as one of those brought near to
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fuel or do We? We have made God, 89 then for him there shall
it to be a reminder and a benefit be comfort and plenty and a
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for the wayfarers. 74 So glorify Garden of Bliss; and if he is of
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the name of your Lord, the those who are on the Right, he
Supreme. will be greeted with, Peace be
75 Nay, I swear by the setting to you, by those on the Right.
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of the stars and, indeed, that 92 But if he is one of those who
is a most mighty oath, if you rejected [the truth] and went
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only knew that this is indeed astray, 93 he will be welcomed
a noble Quran, 78 in a well- with boiling water. 94 He will
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guarded preserved Book, burn in Hell. This is indeed the
79 which none can touch except indubitable truth. 96 So glorify
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the purified. It is a revelation the name of your Lord, the
sent down from the Lord of the Supreme.