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XLI, 41-47.
THE CHAPTER 'DETAILED.'
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Verily, those who misbelieve in the reminder when it comes to them--and, verily, it is a glorious Book ! falsehood shall not come to it, from before it, nor from behind it—a revelation from the wise, the praiseworthy One. Naught is said to thee but what was said to the apostles before thee, Verily, thy Lord is Lord of forgiveness and Lord of grievous torment!'
And had we made it a foreign Qur'ân, they would have said, 'Unless its signs be detailed. . . . What! foreign and Arabic??' Say, 'It is, for those who believe, a guidance and a healing. But those who believe not, in their ears is dulness, and it is blindness to them; these are called to from a far-off place.'
[45] And we gave Moses the Book, and it was disputed about; but had it not been for thy Lord's word already passed it would have been decided between them, for, verily, they were in hesitating doubt thereon.
Whoso does right it is for his soul, and whoso does evil it is against it, for thy Lord is not unjust towards His servants.
To Him is referred the knowledge of the Hour: and no fruits come forth from their husks, and no female conceives, or is delivered, save with His knowledge.
And the day when He shall call to them, 'Where
1 I. e. they would have said, "What I is the revelation in a foreign tongue, and we who are expected to read it Arabs?' This is paraphrased by Sale : 'If we had revealed the Qur'an in a foreign language, they had surely said, "Unless the signs thereof be distinctly explained we will not receive the same: is the Book to be written in a foreign tongue, and the person unto whom it is directed an Arabian ?" !
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