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THE QUR'ÂN. LXXXVI, 2-LXXXVII,8.
shall make thee know what the night star is ?- The star of piercing brightness.
Verily, every soul has a guardian over it.
[5] Then let man look from what he is created : he is created from water poured forth, that comes out from between the loins and the breast bones?
Verily, He is able to send him back again, on the day when the secrets shall be tried, [10] and he shall have no strength nor helper.
By the heaven that sends back the rain! And the earth with its sprouting!
Verily, it is indeed a distinguishing speech, and it is no frivolity!
[15] Verily, they do plot a plot !
But I plot my plot too ! let the misbelievers bide; do thou then let them bide awhile !
THE CHAPTER OF THE Most High.
(LXXXVII. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
Celebrated the name of thy Lord most High, who created and fashioned, and who decreed and guided, and who brings forth the pasture, [5] and then makes it dusky stubble!
We will make thee recite, and thou shalt not forget?, save what God pleases. Verily, He knows the open and what is concealed ; and we will send
From the loins of the man and the breast bones of the woman.-Al Bâidhâvî.
3 See Chapter II, verse 100, Part I, p. 14.
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