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THE QUR'ÂN.
XXXV, 41-XXXVI, 9.
thou shalt not find any alteration in the course of God; and they shall not find any change in the course of God.
Have they not journeyed on in the land and seen what was the end of those before them who were stronger than they? but God, nothing can ever make Him helpless in the heavens or in the earth; verily, He is knowing, powerful.
Were God to catch men up for what they earn, He would not leave upon the back of it? a beast; but He respites them until an appointed time. [45] When their appointed time comes, verily, God looks upon His servants.
THE CHAPTER OF Y. S.
(XXXVI. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
Y.S. By the wise Qur'ân, verily, thou art of the apostles upon a right way. The revelation of the mighty, the merciful! [5] That thou mayest warn a people whose fathers were not warned, and who themselves are heedless.
Now is the sentence due against most of them, for they will not believe. Verily, we will place upon their necks fetters, and they shall reach up to their chins, and they shall have their heads forced back; and we will place before them a barrier, and behind them a barrier; and we will cover them and they shall not see; and it is all the same to them if thou
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