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THE QUR'ÂN.
LXVIII, 49-LXJX, 11.
Had it not been that grace from his Lord reached him, he would have been cast out on the naked (shore) and blamed the while !
[50] But his Lord elected him, and made him of the pious.
The misbelievers well-nigh upset thee with their looks when they hear the reminder, and they say, 'Surely he is mad!'
And yet it is but a reminder to the worlds !
THE CHAPTER OF THE INFALLIBLE.
(LXIX. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
The Infallible, what is the Infallible? and what should make thee know what the Infallible is ?'
Thamad and 'Âd called the Striking ? Day a lie; [5] but as for Thamud they perished by the shock; and as for 'Âd they perished with the violent cold blast of wind, which He subjected against them for seven nights and eight days consecutively. Thou mightest see the people therein prostrate as though they were palm stumps thrown down, and canst thou see any of them left ?
And Pharaoh and those before him of the overturned cities 2 committed sins, [10] and they rebelled against the apostle of their Lord, and He seized them with an excessive punishment.
Verily, we, when the water surged, bore you on
1 Cf. Chapter XIII, verse 31, Part I, p. 236. ? Sodom and Gomorrah ; cf. Part I, p. 183, note 1.
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