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then pass through them!-ye cannot pass through save by authority!
Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny?
[35] There shall be sent against you a flash of fire, and molten copper, and ye shall not be helped! Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny?
LV, 33-50.
And when the heaven is rent asunder and become rosy red1-(melting) like grease!
Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny?
On that day neither man nor ginn shall be asked about his crime!
[40] Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny?
The sinners shall be known by their marks, and shall be seized by the forelock and the feet!
Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny?
'This is hell, which the sinners did call a lie! they shall circulate between it and water boiling quite !' [45] Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny?
But for him who fears the station of his Lord are gardens twain!
Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny?
Both furnished with branching trees.
Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny ?
[50] In each are flowing springs.
1 The word is also said to mean red leather.
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