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THE QUR'ÂN.
XXXI, 24-32.
And if thou shouldst ask them who created the heavens and the earth, they will surely say, 'God.' Say, 'Praise be to God !' but most of them do not know.
[25] God's is what is in the heavens and what is in the earth ; verily, God, He is the independent, worthy of praise.
And were the trees that are in the earth pens, and the sea (ink) with seven more seas to swell its tide, the words of God would not be spent ; verily, God is mighty, wise!
Your creation and your rising again are but as that of one soul ; verily, God both hears and sees !
Dost thou not see that God joins on the night to the day, and joins on the day to the night, and has subjected the sun and the moon,-each of them runs on unto an appointed time ? and that God of what ye do is well aware ?
That is because God, He is true, and because what ye call on beside Him is falsehood, and because God, He is the high, the great!
[30] Dost thou not see that the ship rides on in the sea by the favour of God, that He may show you of His signs ? verily, in that are signs to every grateful person.
And when a wave like shadows covers them, they call on God, being sincere in their religion ; and when He saves them to the shore, then amongst them are some who halt between two opinions. But none gainsays our signs save every perfidious misbeliever.
O ye folk! fear your Lord and dread the day when the father shall not atone for his son, nor shall the child atone aught for its parent.
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