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THE QUR'ÂN.
XLVI, 28-35.
And when we turned towards thee some of the ginn listening to the Qur'an', and when they were present at the reading of) it, they said, 'Be silent!' and when it was over they turned back to their people, warning them.
Said they, 'O our people! verily, we have heard a book sent down after Moses, verifying what came before it, guiding to the truth, and unto the right way. [30] O our peoplel respond to God's crier and believe in Him, and He will pardon you your sins and will deliver you from grievous woe.'
And whoso responds not to God's crier shall not frustrate Him in the earth, and shall not have any patrons beside Him :—these are in obvious error!
Did they not see that God who created the heavens and the earth, and was not wearied with creating them, is able to quicken the dead ?-nay, verily, He is mighty over all !
And the day when those who misbelieve shall be exposed to the fire,-'Is not this the truth ?' they shall say, 'Yea, by our Lord !' He shall say, 'Then taste the torment for that ye did misbelieve !'
Then do thou? be patient, as the apostles endowed with a purpose were patient, and hasten not on (their punishment). It shall be to them, on the day they see what they are threatened with, as though they [35] had tarried but an hour of the day. A preaching this! Shall any perish but the people who work abomination ?
1 See Introduction, p. XXX. 9 Addressed to Mohammed.
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