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THE QUR'ÂN.
LXVII, 16-28.
Are ye sure that He who is in the heaven will not cleave the earth with you, and that it then shall quake?
Or are ye sure that He who is in the heaven will not send against you a heavy sand storm, and that ye then shall know how the warning was ?
But those before them did call the apostles liars, and what a change it was!
Or have they not looked at the birds above them expanding their wings or closing them ?-none holds them in except the Merciful One; for He on everything doth look.
[20] Or who is this who will be a host for you, to help you against the Merciful ?—the misbelievers are only in delusion!
Or who is this who will provide you if He hold back His provision ?- Nay, but they persist in perverseness and aversion!
Is he who walks prone upon his face more guided than he who walks upright upon a straight path?
Say, 'It is He who produced you and made for you hearing and sight and hearts'-little is it that ye give thanks.
Say, 'It is He who sowed you in the earth, and unto Him shall ye be gathered!'
[25] They say, 'When shall this threat be, if ye do speak the truth ?'
Say, 'The knowledge is only with God; and I am but a plain warner!'
And when they see it nigh, sorry shall be the faces of those who misbelieve; and it shall be said, "This is that for which ye used to call !
Say, 'Have ye considered, whether God destroy me and those with me, or whether we obtain mercy,
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