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| 1. Nigh unto men has drawn their reckoning, yet they turn away in heedlessness. 2. There comes not to them any new admonition from their Lord, but they listen to it while they make sport of it. 3. And their hearts are forgetful. And they - the wrongdoers - confer together in secret and say, `Is this man aught but a mortal like yourselves ? Will you then yield to his sorcery with your eyes open ?' 4. In reply to this the Prophet said, ``My Lord knows what is said in the heavens and the earth. And HE is All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.' 5. Nay, they say, `These are but confused dreams; nay, he has forged it himself: nay, he is but a poet. Let him then bring us a Sign just as the former Prophets were sent with Signs.' 6. No township, before them, which WE destroyed, ever believed. Would they then believe ? 7. And WE sent none as Messengers before thee but men to whom WE sent revelations. So ask the people of the reminder, if you know not; 8. Nor did WE give them bodies that ate not food, neither were they to live forever. 9. Then WE fulfilled to them Our promise; and WE saved them and those whom WE pleased; and WE destroyed the transgressors. 10. WE have now sent down to you a Book which makes provision for your eminence; will you not then understand ? |
