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LXVII, 4-15. THE CHAPTER OF THE KINGDOM.
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look again twice !-thy look shall return to thee driven back and dulled !
[5] And we have adorned the lower heaven with lamps; and set them to pelt the devils with?; and we have prepared for them the torment of the blaze!
And for those who disbelieve in their Lord is the torment of hell, and an evil journey shall it be!
When they shall be cast therein they shall hear its braying 2 as it boils—it will well-nigh burst for rage!
Whenever a troop of them is thrown in, its treasurers shall ask them, 'Did not a warner come to you?'
They shall say, 'Yea! a warner came to us, and we called him liar, and said, “God has not sent down aught; ye are but in great error!”
[10] And they shall say, 'Had we but listened or had sense we had not been amongst the fellows of the blaze!'
And they will confess their sins; but ‘Avaunt to the fellows of the blaze!'
Verily, those who fear their Lord in secret, for them is forgiveness and a great hire !
Speak ye secretly or openly, verily, He knows the nature of men's breasts !
Ay! He knows who created! for He is the subtle, the well-aware !
(15] He it is who made the earth flat for you; so walk in the spacious sides thereof and eat of His provision ; for unto Him the resurrection is !
See Part I, pp. 50, 51, note 2. ? Cf. Chapters XXV, verse 12, and XXXI, verse 18.
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