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THE QUR'ÂN.
LVI, 91-LVII, 6.
Or, if he be of those who say it 'is a lie,—who err!
then an entertainment of boiling water! and
broiling in hell ! [95] Verily, this is surely certain truth! So celebrate the grand name of thy Lord !
THE CHAPTER OF IRON.
(LVII. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
Whatever is in the heavens and the earth celebrates the praises of God, for He is the mighty, the wise!
His is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth : He quickens and He kills, and He is mighty over all!
He is the first and the last; and the outer and the inner; and He all things doth know !
He it is who created the heavens and the earth in six days, then He made for the throne ; and He knows what goes into the earth and what goes forth therefrom, and what comes down from the sky and what goes up therein, and He is with you wheresoe'er ye be: for God on what ye do doth look!
[5] His is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, and unto God affairs return. He makes the night succeed the day, and makes the day succeed the night; and He knows the nature of men's breasts.
Believe in God and His Apostle, and give alms of what He has made you successors of. For those amongst you who believe and give alms—for them is mighty hire.
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