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THE QUR'ÂN.
L, 5-15.
[5] Nay, they call the truth a lie when it comes to them, and they are in a confused affair 1,
Do not they behold the heaven above them, how we have built it and adorned it, and how it has no flaws ?
And the earth, we have stretched it out and thrown thereon firm mountains, and caused to grow thereon every beautiful kind.
An insight and a reminder to every servant who repents!
And we sent down from the heaven water as a blessing, and caused to grow therewith gardens and the harvest grain !
[10] And the tall palm trees having piled up spathes, for a provision to (our) servants; and we quickened thereby a dead land; thus shall the resurrection be!
Before them the people of Noah and the fellows of ar Rass 2 and Thamud and Ad and Pharaoh called the apostles liars; and the brethren of Lot and the fellows of the Groves and the people of Tubba'h - all called the prophets liars, and the threat was duly executed.
Were we then fatigued with the first creation ? nay! but they are in obscurity concerning the new creation.
[15] But we created man, and we know what his
Alluding to the various opinions expressed by the unbelievers with reference to the Qur'ân; some calling it sorcery or divination, others poetry, and some asserting it to be 'old folks' tales' or mere invention.
? See Part II, p. 86, note 3. 8 See Part I, p. 249, note 3. + See Chapter XLIV, verse 35, p. 219, note 3.
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