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XXIX, 12-23. THE CHAPTER OF THE SPIDER.
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they shall surely be asked upon the resurrection day concerning what they did devise.
And we sent Noah to his people, and he dwelt among them for a thousand years save fifty years ; and the deluge overtook them while they were unjust : but we saved him and the fellows of the ark, and we made it a sign unto the worlds.
And Abraham when he said to his people, 'Serve God and fear Him, that is better for you if ye did but know. [15] Ye only serve beside God idols and do create a lie ; verily, those whom ye serve beside God cannot control for themselves provision; then crave provision with God, and serve Him, and give thanks to Him; unto Him shall ye return! And if ye say it is a lie, nations before you called (the apostles) liars too; but an apostle has only his plain message to preach !
Have they not seen how God produces the creation, and then turns it back ? verily, that to God is easy.
Say, ‘Journey ye on in the land, and behold how the creation appeared; then God produces another production : verily, God is mighty over all !'
[20] He torments whom He will, and has mercy on whom He will; and unto Him shall ye be returned.
Nor can ye make Him helpless in the earth, nor in the heavens ; nor have ye beside God a patron or a helper.
And those who disbelieve in God's signs and in meeting with Him, these shall despair of my mercy; and these, for them is grievous woe.
But the answer of his people was only to say, 'Kill him or burn him ! But God saved him from
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