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XVIII, 40-48. THE CHAPTER OF THE CAVE.
morrow he turned down the palms of his hands for what he had spent thereon, for it was fallen down upon its trellises. And he said, 'Would that I had never associated any one with my Lord!' And he had not any party to help him beside God, nor was he helped. In such a case the patronage is God's, the true; He is best at rewarding and best at bringing to an issue.
Strike out for them, too, a parable of the life of this world; like water which we send down from the sky, and the vegetation of the earth is mingled therewith ;—and on the morrow it is dried up, and the winds scatter it ; for God is powerful over all.
Wealth and children are an adornment of the life of this world; but enduring good works are better with thy Lord, as a recompense, and better as a
hope. r [45] And the day when we will move the moun
tains, and thou shalt see the (whole) earth stalking forth; and we will gather them, and will not leave one of them behind. Then shall they be presented to thy Lord in ranks.—Now have ye come to us as we created you at first ! nay, but ye thought that we would never make our promise good
And the Book shall be placeda, and thou shalt see the sinners in fear of what is in it; and they will say, 'Alas, for us! what ails this Book, it leaves neither small nor great things alone, without numbering them ?' and they shall find present what they have done; and thy Lord will not wrong any one.
And when we said to the angels, ' Adore Adam,
1 I. e. wrung his hands.
2 In the hand of each.
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