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| 1. All praise belongs to ALLAH Who created the heavens and the earth and brought into being darkness and light; yet those who disbelieve set up equals to their Lord. 2. HE it is Who created you from clay and then HE decreed a term. And there is another term fixed with HIM. Yet you doubt. 3. And HE is ALLAH, the God, both in the heavens and in the earth. HE knows what you disclose and your secrets. And HE knows what you earn. 4. And there comes not to them any Sign of the Signs of their Lord, but they turn away from it. 5. So they rejected the truth when it came to them; but soon shall come to them the tidings of that at which they mocked. 6. See they not how many a generation WE have destroyed before them ? WE had established them in the earth as WE have not established you and WE sent the clouds over them, pouring down abundant rain; and WE caused streams to flow beneath them; then did WE destroy them because of their sins and raised up after them another generation. 7. And if WE had sent down to thee a writing upon the parchment and they had felt it with their hands even then the disbelievers would have surely said, `This is nothing but manifest sorcery.' 8. And they say, `Why has not an angel been sent down to him ?' And if WE had sent down an angel, the matter would have been decided, and then they would have been granted no respite. |
