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THE QUR'ÂN.
LIV, 12-31.
And we made the earth burst forth in springs, and the waters met at a bidding already decreed.
But we bore him on the thing of planks and nails; sailing on beneath our eyes, a reward for him who had been disbelieved !
[15] And we left it a sign ;-but is there any one who will mind ?
'Âd called the apostles liars, and how was my punishment and my warning ?
Verily, we sent on them a cold storm wind on a day of continuous ill-luck!
[20] It reft men away as though they had been palm stumps torn up!
We have made the Qur'an easy as a reminderbut is there any one who will mind?
Thamud called the warnings lies, and said, 'A mortal, one of us, alone, shall we follow him ? then indeed were we in error and excitement1!
[25]' Is the warning cast on him alone among us? nay, he is an insolent liar !
They shall know to-morrow about the insolent liar !
Verily, we are about to send the she-camel as a trial for them, then watch them and have patience! and inform them that the water is shared between them (and her); each draught shall be sought by turns.
Then they called their companion, and he plied (a knife) and hamstrung her.
[30] Then how was my punishment and my warning? Verily, we sent against them one noise, and they were like the dry sticks of him who builds a fold.
i Or madness.
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