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XXIX, 33-43. THE CHAPTER OF THE SPIDER.
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are about to send down upon the people of this city a horror from heaven, for that they have sinned ; and we have left therefrom a manifest sign unto a people who have sense.
[35] And unto Midian we sent their brother Sho'hâib, and he said, "My people, serve God, and hope for the last day; and waste not the land, despoiling it.'
But they called him liar; and the convulsion seized them, and on the morrow they lay in their dwellings prone.
And 'Âd and Thamud-but it is plain to you from their habitations; for Satan made seemly to them their works, and turned them from the way, sagacious though they were !
And Korah and Pharaoh and Hâmân-Moses did come to them with manifest signs, but they were too big with pride in the earth, although they could not outstrip us !
And each of them we seized in his sin ; and of them were some against whom we sent a sandstorm; and of them were some whom the noise seized; and of them were some with whom we cleaved the earth open; and of them were some we drowned : God would not have wronged them, but it was themselves they wronged.
[40] The likeness of those who take, beside God, patrons is as the likeness of a spider, that takes to himself a house; and, verily, the weakest of houses is a spider's house, if they did but know!
Verily, God knows whatever thing they call upon beside Him; for He is the mighty, wise.
These are parables which we have struck out
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