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And of His signs is your sleep by night and by day; and your craving after His grace. Verily, in that are signs unto a people who do hear.
And of His signs is this, that He shows you lightning for fear and hope; and sends down from the sky water, and quickens therewith the earth after its death ; verily, in that are signs unto a people who have sense.
And of His signs is this, that the heavens and the earth stand by His order; then when He calls you from the earth, lo! ye shall come forth. [25] His are those who are in the heavens and the earth, and all to Him are devoted. And He it is who produces a creation and then makes it to go back again; for it is very easy to Him; and His are the loftiest similitudes in the heavens and the earth; and He is the mighty, wise !
He has struck out for you a parable from yourselves; have ye of what your right hand possess partners in what we have bestowed upon you, so that ye share alike therein ? do ye fear them as ye fear each other ?–Thus do we detail the signs unto a people who have sense 1
Nay, when those who are unjust follow their lusts without knowledge,-and who shall guide him whom God has led astray ? and they shall have none to help.
Set thy face steadfast towards the religion as an
1 I.e. as they, the Meccans, do not consider their slaves their .equals, still less does God hold the false gods they associate with Him to be His equals, it being always remembered that these partners or false gods were not spoken of in the Qur'ân as non-1 BY existent, but as supernatural beings, to whom divinity bas been wrongly ascribed.
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