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THE QUR'ÂN.
XXXIV, 44-54.
And they said my apostles were liars, and how great a change was then!
[45] Say, 'I only admonish you of one thing, that ye should stand up before God in twos or singly, and then that ye reflect that there is no ginn in your companion ! He is only a warner to you before the keen torment.
Say, 'I do not ask you for it a hire; that is for yourselves; my hire is only from God, and He is witness over all.'
Say, ' Verily, my Lord hurls forth the truth; and He well knows the unseen.'
Say, 'The truth has come, and falsehood shall vanish and shall not come back.'
Say, 'If I err I only err against myself; and if I am guided it is all what my Lord inspires me; verily, He is the hearing, the nigh!
[50] And couldst thou see when they are scared, and there shall be no escape, and they shall be taken from a place that is nigh. And they say, "We believe in it.' But how can they partake of it from a distant place? They misbelieved before, and conjectured about the unseen from a distant place. And there shall be a barrier between them and that which they lust after; as we did with their fellow sectaries before; verily, they were in hesitating doubt.
That he, Mohammed, is not possessed by a ginn.
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