[42:52]

And thus have We inspired in thee (Muhammad) a Spirit of Our command. Thou knewest not what the Scripture was, nor what the Faith. But We have made it a light whereby We guide whom We will of Our bondmen. And lo! thou verily dost guide unto a right path,

[42:53]

The path of Allah, unto Whom belongeth whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth. Do not all things reach Allah at last ?

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In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.

[43:1]

Ha. Mim.

[43:2]

By the Scripture which maketh plain,

[43:3]

Lo! We have appointed it a Lecture, in Arabic that haply ye may understand.

[43:4]

And Lo! in the Source of Decrees, which We possess, it is indeed sublime, decisive.

[43:5]

Shall We utterly ignore you because ye are a wanton folk ?

[43:6]

How many a prophet did We send among the men of old!

[43:7]

And never came there unto them a prophet but they used to mock him.

[43:8]

Then We destroyed men mightier than these in prowess; and the example of the men of old hath gone (before them).

[43:9]

And if thou (Muhammad) ask them: Who created the heavens and the earth, they will surely answer: The Mighty, the Knower created them;

[43:10]

Who made the earth a resting-place for you, and placed roads for you therein, that haply ye may find your way;