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THE QUR'ÂN.
XXXIV, 1-7.
THE CHAPTER OF SEBÂ?.
(XXXIV. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
Praise belongs to God, whose is whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth ; His is the praise in the next world, and He is the wise and well aware!
He knows what goes into the earth, and what comes forth therefrom, and what comes down from the sky, and what ascends thereto; for He is the merciful, forgiving.
Those who misbelieve say, 'The Hour shall not come to us;' say, 'Yea, by my Lord it shall surely come to you ! by Him who knows the unseen! nor shall there escape from it the weight of an atom, in the heavens or in the earth, or even less than that, or greater, save in the perspicuous Book ;' and that He may reward those who believe and do right; these, for them is forgiveness and a noble provision.
[5] But those who strive concerning our signs to frustrate them; these,- for them is the torment of a grievous plague.
And those to whom knowledge has been given see that what is sent down to thee from thy Lord is the truth, and guides unto the way of the mighty, the praiseworthy.
And those who misbelieve say, 'Shall we guide
1 A city of Yemen was also called Mârab; it was about three days' journey from Sanâ'h. The bursting of the dyke of Marab and the destruction of the city by a flood are historical facts, and happened in about the first or second century of our era.
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