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XXVIII, 64-75. THE CHAPTER OF THE STORY.
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And it will be said, “Call upon your partners;' and they will call upon them, but they will not answer them, and they shall see the torment; would that they had been guided.
[65] And the day when He shall call them and shall say, 'What was it ye answered the apostles ?'' and the history shall be blindly confusing to them on that day, and they shall not ask each other.
But, as for him who turns again and believes and does right, it may be that he will be among the prosperous. For thy Lord creates what He pleases and chooses; they have not the choice ! Celebrated be the praise of God! and exalted be He above what they associate with Him !
Thy Lord knows what they conceal in their breasts and what they manifest.
[70] He is God, there is no god but He; to Him belongs praise, in the first and the last; and His is the judgment; and unto Him shall ye return!
Have ye considered, if God were to make for you the night endless until the resurrection day, who is the god, but God, to bring you light ? can ye not then hear?
Say, 'Have ye considered, if God were to make for you the day endless until the day of judgment, who is the god, except God, to bring you the night to rest therein ? can ye not then see?' But of His mercy He has made for you the night and the day, that ye may rest therein, and crave of His grace, haply ye may give thanks.
And the day when He shall call them and shall say, 'Where are my partners whom ye did pretend ?' [75] And we will pluck from every nation a witness ; and we will say, 'Bring your proof and know that
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