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- XXXV, 33-41. THE CHAPTER OF THE ANGELS.
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hell; it shall not be decreed for them to die, nor shall aught of the torment be lightened from them ; thus do we reward every misbeliever; and they shall shriek therein, 'O our Lord! bring us forth, and we will do right, not what we used to do!'—' Did we not let you grow old enough for every one who would be mindful to be mindful? and there came to you a warner !—[35] So taste it, for the unjust shall have none to help! verily, God knows the unseen things of the heavens and of the earth; verily, He knows the nature of men's breasts, He it is who made you vicegerents in the earth, and he who misbelieves, his misbelief is against himself; but their misbelief shall only increase the misbelievers in hatred with their Lord; and their misbelief shall only increase the misbelievers in loss.
Say, 'Have ye considered your associates whom ye call on beside God ?' show me what they created of the earth; have they a share in the heavens, or have we given them a book that they rest on a manifest sign.? nay, the unjust promise each other naught but guile.
Verily, God holds back the heavens and the earth lest they should decline; and if they should decline there is none to hold them back after Him; verily, He is clement, forgiving.
[40] They swore by God with their most strenuous oath, verily, if there come to them a warner they would be more guided than any one of the nations; but when a warner comes to them, it only increases them in aversion, and in being big with pride in the earth, and in plotting evil; but the plotting of evil only entangles those who practise it; can they then expect aught but the course of those of yore? but
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