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XLV, 23-33. THE CHAPTER OF THE KNEELING.
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They say, 'It is only our life in this world, we die and we live, and naught destroys us but time!' But they have no knowledge of this; they do but suspect.
And when our signs are rehearsed to them with evidences their only argument is to say, 'Bring our fathers, if ye speak the truth.'
[25] Say, God quickens you, then He kills you, then He will gather you unto the resurrection day, there is no doubt therein; but most men do not know.'
God's is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, and on the day when the Hour shall arise on that day shall those who call it 1 vain be losers ! And thou shalt see each nation kneeling, each nation summoned to its book, ‘To-day are ye rewarded for that which ye have done.'
This is our Book that speaketh to you with truth; verily, we have written down what ye have done.
But as to those who believe and do righteous deeds their Lord will make them enter into His mercy: that is the obvious bliss.
[30] And as for those who misbelieve, --- were not my signs recited to you and ye were too big with pride and ye were a sinful people? And when it was said, *Verily, the promise of God is true, and the Hour there is no doubt therein ;' ye said, 'We know not what the Hour is, we only suspect, and we are not
sure.'
But there shall appear to them the evils of what they have done, and that shall encompass them at which they have been mocking. And it shall be said, 'To-day will we forget you as ye forgat the
1 The Qur'ân.
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