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XXIV, 41-49.
THE CHAPTER OF LIGHT.
Hast thou not seen that God, -all who are in the heavens and the earth celebrate His praises, and the birds too spreading out their wings; each one knows its prayer and its praise, and God knows what they do?
Hast thou not seen that God drives the clouds, and then re-unites them, and then accumulates them, and thou mayest see the rain coming forth from their midst; and He sends down from the sky mountains 1 with hail therein, and He makes it fall on whom He pleases, and He turns it from whom He pleases; the flashing of His lightning wellnigh goes off with their sight?
God interchanges the night and the day; verily, in that is a lesson to those endowed with sight.
And God created every beast from water, and of them is one that walks upon its belly, and of them one that walks upon two feet, and of them one that walks upon four. God creates what He pleases; verily, God is mighty over all !
[45] Now have we sent down manifest signs, and God guides whom He pleases unto the right way.
They will say, 'We believe in God and in the Apostle, and we obey. Then a sect of them turned their backs after that, and they are not believers.
And when they are called to God and His Apostle to judge between them, lo! a sect of them do turn aside. But had the right been on their side they would have come to him submissively enough.
Is there a sickness in their hearts, or do they doubt, or do they fear lest God and His Apostle
* I. e. masses of cloud as large as mountains.
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