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And keep your duty unto Him Who created you and the generations of the men of old.

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They said: Thou art but one of the bewitched;

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Thou art but a mortal like us, and lo! we deem thee of the liars.

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Then make fragments of the heaven fall upon us, if thou art of the truthful.

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He said: My Lord is Best Aware of what ye do.

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But they denied him, so there came on them the retribution of the day of gloom. Lo! it was the retribution of an awful day.

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Lo! herein is indeed a portent; yet most of them are not believers.

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And lo! thy Lord! He is indeed the Mighty, the Merciful.

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And lo! it is a revelation of the Lord of the Worlds,

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Which the True Spirit hath brought down

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Upon thy heart, that thou mayst be (one) of the warners,

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In plain Arabic speech.

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And lo! it is in the Scriptures of the men of old.

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Is it not a token for them that the doctors of the Children of Israel know it ?

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And if We had revealed it unto one of any other nation than the Arabs,

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And he had read it unto them, they would not have believed in it.

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Thus do We make it traverse the hearts of the guilty.

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They will not believe in it till they behold the painful doom,

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So that it will come upon them suddenly, when they perceive not.

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Then they will say: Are we to be reprieved ?

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Would they (now) hasten on Our doom ?

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Hast thou then seen, if We content them for (long) years,

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And then cometh that which they were promised,