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In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
- They will say: "Aforetime We were not without fear for the sake of our people.
- "But Allah has been good to us and has delivered us from the Penalty of the Scorching Wind.
- "Truly we did call unto Him from of old: truly it is He the Beneficent the Merciful"
- Therefore proclaim thou the praises (of thy Lord): For by the Grace of thy Lord thou art no (vulgar) soothsayer nor art thou one possessed.
- Or do they say "A Poet! we await for him some calamity (hatched) by Time!"
- Say thou: "Await ye! I too will wait along with you!"
- Is it that their faculties of understanding urge them to this or are they but a people transgressing beyond bounds?
- Or do they say "He fabricated the (Message)"? Nay they have no faith!
- Let them then produce a recital like unto it if (it be) they speak the Truth!
- Were they created of nothing or were they themselves the creators?
- Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Nay they have no firm belief.
- Or are the Treasures of thy Lord with them or are they the managers (of affairs)?
- Or have they a ladder by which they can (climb up to heaven and) listen (to its secrets)? Then let (such a) listener of theirs produce a manifest proof.
- Or has He only daughters and ye have sons?
- Or is it that thou dost ask for a reward so that they are burdened with a load of debt?
- Or that the Unseen is in their hands and they write it down?
- Or do they intend a plot (against thee)? But those who defy Allah are themselves involved in a Plot!
- Or have they a god other then Allah? exalted is Allah far above the things they associate with Him!
- Were they to see a piece of the sky falling (on them) they would (only) say: "clouds gathered in heaps!"
- So leave them alone until they encounter that Day of theirs wherein they shall (perforce) swoon (with terror)
- The Day when their plotting will avail them nothing and no help shall be Given them.
- And verily for those who do wrong there is another punishment besides this: but most of them understand not.
- Now await in patience the command of thy Lord: for verily thou art in our eyes: and celebrate the praises of thy Lord the while thou standest forth.
- And for part of the night also praise thou Him and at the retreat of the stars!
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