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XL, 67-76.
THE CHAPTER OF THE BELIEVER.
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He is the living One, there is no god but He ! then call on Him, being sincere in your religion to Him; praise be to God, the Lord of the worlds !
Say, 'Verily, I am forbidden to serve those whom ye call on beside God, since there have come to me manifest signs from my Lord, and I am bidden to be resigned unto the Lord of the worlds.'
He it is who created you from the earth, then from a clot, then from congealed blood, then He brings you forth a child; then ye reach to puberty; then do ye become old men,-though of you there are some who are taken away before,--that ye may reach an appointed time, and haply ye may have some sense.
[70] He it is who quickens and kills, and when He decrees a matter, then He only says to it, 'BE,' and it is.
Hast thou not seen those who wrangle concerning the signs of God how they are turned away? Those who call the Book, and what we have sent our apostles with, a lie, soon shall they know-when the fetters are on their necks and the chains, as they are dragged into hell —then in the fire shall they be baked.
Then it shall be said to them, 'Where is what ye did associate beside God ?' They shall say, 'They have strayed away from us; nay, we did not call before upon anything I'—thus does God lead the misbelievers astray.
[75] There! for that ye did rejoice in the land without right; and for that ye did exult; enter ye the gates of hell, to dwell therein for aye; for evil is the resort of those who are too big with
pride!
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